> Specifics of only putting tariffs on 1kg bars and not other sizes seems utterly pointless.

So in other words, it matches the other damaging and/or stupid import taxes the federal government is imposing on Americans right now? :P

Perhaps the ulterior motive is to damage consumer gold markets in order to promote somebody's cryptocurrency?

ok, I will try and be gentle, but it's going to be hard for you to understand that logic, and reason and most other cognitive processes are liabilitys now,in figuring out how the government is operating, so keeping it simple, tariff=universal whacking stick , switzerland=very nice but bad, little whack to get attention to universal whacking stick *hint: most other government policy now rhymes with whack

edit: more whacking https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-...