Many things about the Trump administration's new global tariffs make little sense.
Those tariffs are a huge tax increase on American consumers and businesses—one that will raise taxes by $1.8 trillion and lower incomes by over 2 percent, according to the Tax Foundation's analysis. The White House seems to have used some fuzzy math in calculating those tariff rates. Trump is also, somehow, putting tariffs on countries inhabited solely by penguins—which has, in fairness, spurred robust growth in the manufacturing of memes. It is all very silly and largely self-destructive.
Yet, even by those standards, some of these new tariffs are truly outlandish. In the interest of narrowing down the chaos into a few bite-sized morsels, here are the three country-specific tariffs that make the least sense, based on what Trump himself has said are the guiding principles behind his new trade policies.
