@KaiserKitty@clubcyberia.co @Elliptica@poa.st @Frondeur@poa.st @KingOfWhiteAmerica@poa.st Nah, you have to start somewhere and if necessary adjust based on experience. @IAMAL_PHARIUS@poa.st is correct to point out the elasticity figures are "a wild fucking guess. because there's like 100 countries all doing different shit" because this is complicated beyond belief with things that aren't tariffs but act in the same way, like export refunded VATs vs. our corporate income tax. This formula ___had___ the advantages of a) being simple, b) getting everyone but the PRC to the negotiating table, c) apparently getting a 10% base tariff accepted, and d) provoking the PRC into a serious response which has long been needed in their cold war with the entire rest of the world. The formula is "no longer operative" except for the purposes of spurring the success of b).