President Donald Trump is scheduled to announce significant tariffs on other countries in a speech Wednesday afternoon at the White House.

The Trump administration took that formula’s figure, -0.5 for South Korea, and divided it by two to calculate the U.S. “discounted reciprocal” tariff rate. So, while South Korea imposes an effective tariff rate of .79 percent on U.S. goods, the reciprocal tariff rate the U.S. is imposing on South Korea is 25 percent.

More than a dozen countries set for US reciprocal tariffs spent the first day of President Donald Trump's tariff rollout not only bracing for the economic fallout but with confusion about exactly what rates they might face.

Aides struggled to satisfy the president’s competing priorities before settling on a plan to both raise revenue and boost corporate onshoring.

As with earlier countermoves to U.S. trade penalties, Beijing hit back with targeted action, as well as its universal 34% tariff on all products from the U.S. The C

President Donald Trump had nearly clinched an agreement with TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd. that would spare the popular app from a US ban, but the deal was scuttled after China withheld its approval following this week’s tariff announcement,