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Yesterday, @cstross mentioned the old "Whoops, Apocalypse!" telly series, and I said "Excel, Apocalypse!".

The #ExcelApocalypse hashtag is now here, for the U.S. government that conducts military operations from unsecured personal 'phones in Moscow, that puts a MAX() function on a spreadsheet that erroneously impacts a load of countries, and that forgets to send out the formal order backing off from its tariff war to the blanket 10%.

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mastodon.scotJdeBP (@JdeBP@mastodon.scot)Major legal question for today: Can this officially published and recorded executive order be countermanded by an unofficial mere Truth Social post? https://whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits/ Because if it cannot, the higher #tariffs over the 10% rate are in fact still in effect. There has been no countermanding formal executive order and it is now just past 17:00 EDT. #DonaldJTrump #USLaw
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This is the White House executive orders list. It is up to date as of 2025-04-09. I watched them put all of yesterday's orders up last night, to check.

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

The 2025-04-02 order that has the high #TrumpCrash #tariffs, coming into force on 2025-04-09 00:01 EDT, is there.

So where's the order countermanding it?

Yes, this is an "Oh crap!" moment.

In all of the fuss of TS posts and press conferences, #DonaldJTrump has forgotten to issue the actual tariff reduction order.

The White HouseExecutive Orders Archives
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It is going to be cat amongst pigeons time when people read the #DonaldJTrump Truth Social post carefully and realize that it doesn't actually directly order the #tariffs of the 2025-04-02 order to be reduced to 10%, but says only that a change has been ordered somewhere else, an order that is not currently published and might not actually have been officially sent out.

Time to kick off the #ExcelApocalypse hashtag.

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Major legal question for today:

Can this officially published and recorded executive order be countermanded by an unofficial mere Truth Social post?

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

Because if it cannot, the higher #tariffs over the 10% rate are in fact still in effect. There has been no countermanding formal executive order and it is now just past 17:00 EDT.

The White House · Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade DeficitsBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency
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It's worth remembering the @standupmaths calculations at this point.

The weighted mean tariff was 41%. With the blanket minimum still in place, as Reuters et al. say it is going to be, the mean tariff is now just over 10% (as China remains on a *much* higher rate and drives the mean up a little bit).

With the more realistic price pass-through of 0.94, that's still a roughly 10% consumer price rise over all imported goods in the U.S.A..

#economics#DonaldJTrump#TrumpCrash
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In case you were a United Statian wondering what your Congressperson is doing whilst the #TrumpCrash is on-going:

Your Congressperson is currently letting four pieces of remedial legislation, re-asserting the Congress's sole power to set #tariffs, die in committee.

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@BradRubenstein @Remittancegirl

Business Insider has more on this within the past hour. The Economic Times voices the rumour that it may be Japan and the U.K. doing this as well. A lot of speculation, but no real facts. However, there's a bond auction later today that people are going to be watching.

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Economic Times · 10-year Treasury yield surges above 4.5% — is the U.S. bond market no longer a safe heaven amid Trump’s ChBy Global Desk
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New York and Vermont are extortionists, and California is a radical, says #DonaldJTrump, the person currently trying to extort a fair fraction of the countries of the world and whose SCOTUS is the most judicially activist radicals in history.

Whilst xe is at it, xe is undoing as much state law as possible that is trying to avoid #ClimateChange, further greenhouse gas emission, and environmental damage.

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

The White House · Protecting American Energy From State OverreachBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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In a move that is as unsurprising as it is regressive, the U.S.A. is moving to have "A.I." and other U.S.A. corporate data centres powered by burning #FossilFuels as much as possible, and to make use of as many emergency powers as the federal government can get its hands upon.

In an order that unironically says that things "undermine coal production", government officials are also instructed to push selling coal to other countries.

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

The White House · Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. In
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#DonaldJTrump has ordered a reconsideration of #JoeBiden's order preventing the Nippon Steel Corporation from taking over U.S. Steel.

It is to be conducted in secret, and the Secretaries of Defence and the Treasury, and the Director of National Intelligence are amongst the people involved.

They might as well invite the spies into the new Signal chat right now, and save time.

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

The White House · Review of Proposed United States Steel Corporation AcquisitionMemorandum for THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE
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