President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariff package has officially gone into effect today, delivering a powerful blow to nations that have long exploited unfair trade practices at the expense of U.S. jobs.
Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025. This decisive action aims to correct decades of unfair trade practices that have disadvantaged American workers and industries.
Trump said from the White House Rose Garden:
“For too long, other nations have taken advantage of our open markets while imposing barriers to our products. Those days are over.
American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen. We have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered, gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream. We had an American dream that you don’t hear so much about. You did four years ago, and you are now. But you don’t too often.
Now it’s our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt.
And it will all happen very quickly. With today’s action, we are finally going to be able to make America great again, greater than ever before or. Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base.
For nations that treat us badly, we will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, nonmonetary barriers and other forms of cheating. And because we are being very kind, we will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us. So the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. I could have done that. Yes. But it would have been tough for a lot of countries.
For decades, the United States slashed trade barriers on other countries, while those nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created outrageous non-monetary barriers to decimate our industries.
And in many cases, the non-monetary barriers were worse than the monetary ones. They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports, stole our intellectual property, imposed exorbitant taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair rules and technical standards, and created filthy pollution havens.
From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation. And the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been.
So wealthy, in fact, that in the 1880s they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collecting. We were collecting so much money so fast, we didn’t know what to do with it. Isn’t that a nice problem to have?
And my answer is very simple. If they complain, if you want your tariff rate to be zero, then you build your product right here in America. Because there is no tariff. If you build your plant, your product in America. And we’ve seen companies coming in like we’ve never seen before.”
On April 9, 2025, additional reciprocal tariffs are applied to countries with significant trade surpluses, calculated based on their trade practices and deficits with the U.S.
The rates were calculated using a formula: (Trade deficit ÷ Exports to the U.S.) × 0.5, which disproportionately affects nations with large trade surpluses relative to their exports.
Below is the list of countries affected via X user @unusual_whales:
Reciprocal Tariff Level: 104%
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China (cumulative rate combining existing 20%, a 34% reciprocal tariff, and an additional 50% escalation in response to Chinese retaliation). This applies to most Chinese exports to the U.S.
Reciprocal Tariff Level: 50–59%
Reciprocal Tariff Level: 40–49%
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Cambodia – 49
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Laos – 48
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Madagascar – 47
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Vietnam – 46
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Myanmar – 44
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Sri Lanka – 44
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Falkland Islands – 41
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Syria – 41
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Mauritius – 40
Reciprocal Tariff Level: 30–39%
Reciprocal Tariff Level: 20–29%
10% baseline tariff
Africa
North America & Central America
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Anguilla – 10
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Antigua and Barbuda – 10
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Bahamas – 10
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Barbados – 10
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Belize – 10
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Bermuda – 10
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Cayman Islands – 10
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Costa Rica – 10
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Dominica – 10
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Dominican Republic – 10
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El Salvador – 10
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Grenada – 10
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Guatemala – 10
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Haiti – 10
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Honduras – 10
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Jamaica – 10
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Martinique – 10
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Montserrat – 10
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Panama – 10
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Saint Kitts and Nevis – 10
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Saint Lucia – 10
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon – 10
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – 10
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Trinidad and Tobago – 10
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Turks and Caicos Islands – 10
South America
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Argentina – 10
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Bolivia – 10
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Brazil – 10
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Chile – 10
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Colombia – 10
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Ecuador – 10
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French Guiana – 10
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Paraguay – 10
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Peru – 10
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Suriname – 10
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Uruguay – 10
Asia
Europe
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Albania – 10
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Andorra – 10
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Gibraltar – 10
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Iceland – 10
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Kosovo – 10
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Monaco – 10
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Montenegro – 10
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San Marino – 10
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United Kingdom – 10
Oceania
Other / Territories
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British Indian Ocean Territory – 10
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French Polynesia – 10
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Heard and McDonald Islands – 10
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Saint Helena – 10
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Svalbard and Jan Mayen – 10
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Sint Maarten – 10
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Curaçao – 10
