The person behind the mysterious tariffs mathematics has admitted that the calculations were badly off and used incorrectly.

The short answer is no. The White House's own fact sheet (new window ... Andrew Chang breaks down the formula used to determine what each country owes and explains why the math is misleading. Images ...

The American Enterprise Institute said the tariffs Trump slapped on each country should have actually been about one-quarter of their current size.

The arithmetic mean in this example is 6.5. A = 4+9/2 Arithmetric Mean = 6.5 Investopedia The geometric mean uses a more complex formula. To calculate the geometric mean, multiply all values ...

The short answer is no. The White House's own fact sheet about the calculations reveals ... The tariffs were calculated using a formula that takes how much a given country sells to the U.S ...

The formula underpinning President Donald Trump’s new wave of “Liberation Day” tariffs triggered widespread bafflement Thursday, with one CNBC commentator saying it looks like it’s based “on made-up ...

In the wake of Donald Trump’s tariff announcement Wednesday, former New Yorker financial writer James Surowiecki pointed out that a column on Trump’s tariff sheet labeled “tariffs charged to the U.S.A ...

The administration appears to have used a simple, two-step formula to calculate the "reciprocal tariffs" applied to trading ...