The calculation used by the White House for the tariffs charged by other countries used goods exports as a proportion of the sum of goods exports to US and Goods imports from the USA. This not a measure of the tariffs employed by the country. In any case it only look at Goods and not Services. Why ? is a dollar earned by exporting goods worth more than a dollar earned by exporting services. Take the EU - they mostly export goods to the US and import services. They got a high tariffs as the calculation only take goods into account. however, if you take services into account you find that EU is hardly protectionist and would merit the minimum 10% tariff.
In fact US has a service surplus with almost all countries. If services revenues were included , the numbers would look much more reasonable from the US point of view.
The calculation used by the White House for the tariffs charged by other countries used goods exports as a proportion of the sum of goods exports to US and Goods imports from the USA. This not a measure of the tariffs employed by the country. In any case it only look at Goods and not Services. Why ? is a dollar earned by exporting goods worth more than a dollar earned by exporting services. Take the EU - they mostly export goods to the US and import services. They got a high tariffs as the calculation only take goods into account. however, if you take services into account you find that EU is hardly protectionist and would merit the minimum 10% tariff.
In fact US has a service surplus with almost all countries. If services revenues were included , the numbers would look much more reasonable from the US point of view.