President Donald Trump holds up a report authored by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative that he cited as instrumental in his tariff policy.

President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order imposing tariffs on imported goods from across the world during a press conference at the White House's Rose Garden on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Liesman was brought on to discuss how the administration came up with the numbers for their import ... And nobody ever heard of this formula. Nobody has ever used this formula.

The formula underpinning President Donald Trump ... with one CNBC commentator saying it looks like it’s based “on made-up numbers.” Trump slapped huge new tariffs on U.S. imports, sparking ...

Rather than a complex sum, however, it has been observed that the White House used a relatively simple formula to determine ... charging us are just made-up numbers," he added.

Dividing $2 billion into $6.6 billion equals 30% — the number on the White House's chart under "Tariffs charged to the U.S.A." The U.S. Trade Representative's website posted the formula used to ...

Formula imposes some of the highest tariffs ... agreed that it produced "a lot of these kind of nonsense numbers that aren't material". "It sends a signal ... that we are pulling back from our ...

BBC Verify has been looking at the calculations behind the numbers. When Trump presented ... what might look like a complicated mathematical formula. But if you unpick the formula above it boils ...