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how difficult is it to actually identify specifically what the tariffs are for each country vis-a-vis the US?
The tariff numbers are pretty easy to find, at least for developed country importers who are, after all, the ones who import almost all the "stuff".
They are mostly very low in rich countries, with relatively few striking exceptions. Don't try to bring a car into Singapore or a gallon of milk into Canada, or (don't ask) a banana into the EU. Or a bag of sugar into the US, or rice into Japan.
It's much harder to put a number on non-trade barriers like quotas, inspections, unreasonable product standards, and the like, which work to block imports without the dubious benefit of raising tax money. But if you count those, you have to count the same things in the US.
Jim
