Can anyone post a link to President Trump's Tariff comparison chart he presented last week?

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I've been looking all over the internet and not surprisingly all I find are negative articles showing ONLY President Trump's proposed tariffs and NOTHING for comparison, in particular the very concise chart comparing the proposed US tariffs to the current tariffs imposed by other countries. If you can find it, pleast post a link. Thanks.
 
Here you go.

Trump-Recriprocal-Tariff-Chart.jpg
 
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  • A conservative think tank found the White House measured retail price elasticity when it should have used import price elasticity. That mistake meant the tariff outputs were about four times higher than they should have been.
The formula the White House used to calculate its recent tariff is based on an error that roughly quadrupled the rates from what they should have been.

Two scholars at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank, found the White House used the wrong value when assessing the rate at which prices would change as a result of tariffs. The correct version of the formula uses price changes in the cost of imports, meaning how much it costs a U.S. based company to buy a good from a foreign seller. Instead, the White House factored in the retail price change, which is what consumers pay.

That meant the formula was off by a factor of four, because the White House valued the elasticity of import prices at 0.25 when it should have been 0.945, according to AEI.

"It's pretty bush league," Stan Veuger, one of the AEI fellows, told Fortune in phone call. "For such a big policy you'd expect a much higher level of professionalism."
 

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