Some order please!

We’re not going to pass comment on the wisdom or otherwise of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs announced today against more than 180 countries, but what has been bugging us in every news report we’ve seen so far is the lack of order to the lists of countries provided. Can someone explain why the list Trump holds up to the camera goes ‘China – European Union – Vietnam – Taiwan – Japan – etc.’? Also, why are news outlets everywhere publishing this in that same order?

We’ve taken it upon ourselves to create the full list of countries, sortable by country, tariffs charged to US (according to the US Govt) and new US reciprocal tariff. It wasn’t hard – just 10 minutes work. Please see below!

Here’s the link to the read-only Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Phq5UavSwVvdO9CrqeQH9dHmSGAfkYZm9O9790JREWo/edit?usp=sharing

* Photo above by Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-choosing-vinyl-record-6827245/