The standard of journalists in germany....
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So Trump thinks you can multiply numbers by values greater than one. What an idiot.
Wouldn't it be "greater than two", if you're adding over 100% tariffs?
No. That is only if you include the price of the item in the total. For the tariffs themselves, it is just a percentage.
What else would you even multiply, if not the price of the original item? That's how the price of the tariff itself is calculated. Multiplying by 1 is pointless, since it just returns the value of whatever other variable you multiply it with, to begin with.
But anyways, we're just arguing semantics. I am perfectly aware that we both know basic math. It was just your original phrasing that I found questionable.
Tariffs are added on. So you have a 25% tariff, you'd be paying +25% of the cost of the item. If you have a 150% tariff you'd be paying +1.5x the cost of the item.