More stuff Kosh won't comprehend. A table compares countries' tariff levels.
In 2016 the trade weighted average of both the US and the EU was 1.6%.
In 2015 the trade weighted average of the US was 2.4% and of the EU 3.0%
Comparing Countries’ Tariff Levels
Comparing Countries' Tariff Levels
By
Simon Lester
There is lots of talk from the Trump administration these days about how the U.S. is getting cheated on trade. In this context, they have done some cherry-picking of the data to emphasize high foreign tariffs, while conveniently ignoring high U.S. tariffs. For example, Trump
will mention a 270% Canadian tariff on dairy products, without mentioning U.S. tariffs of
up to 187% on sour cream. Or White House trade adviser Peter Navarro
will mention EU auto tariffs of 10% and argue that those are much higher than the 2.5% tariffs for car imports to the U.S, but he won’t mention the
25% U.S. tariff on truck imports.