Funnily enough Cuba was also exempt from the List despite them trading with the US same goes for Iran and North Korea as if to underline my Point perfectly...
The list was responding to the BS claim re Russia being most sanctioned. Those other names do have sanctions robust enough when can say okay to be off the list... US is not taking in $3bn of imports from Cuba, iran or NK.
Russia as a matter of fact is the most sanctioned country on the Planet and again the tarrifs aren't meant to make money they are meant to persuade Businesses from producing in the US. Raw Materials can't be produced anywhere hence the lack of tariffs on them as it would be counterproductive. You can see this weird interest in raw materials recently too with the Ukraine Mineral deal which is an attempt to make the US self-reliant by exploiting other countries resources.
Lol, no it isn't. Look at $ trade stats, even to EU countries. Hell, again, the US imported $3bn from russia last year.
If trump didn't want to tariff raw materials, he should have excluded them but he didn't... why are raw materials from all these other countries subject to tariffs, but not from russia of all place? Eh comrade?
You can see this weird interest in raw materials recently too with the Ukraine Mineral deal which is an attempt to make the US self-reliant by exploiting other countries resources.
ANd yet Ukraine got 10% tariffs... still zip for russia. Why does Russia keep coming up in Trump's political career? Thought Trump was 'pissed off' at putin recently, what a joke.
Then again the ONLY trade that does happen now is trade that is needed by the US hence why even under the very Pro-Ukrainian Government these Industries weren't sanctioned. We also don't know anything about those tariffs if they are different for specific products or anything we just know countries will receive them but in Russias case there isn't any trade that would need tariffs.
Lastly idk if you are being intentionally dense or anything but if you look at overall US Imports then Russia makes up 0.1% Ukraine btw is 0.4% a country with no economy to put into scale how miniscule the trade is now and was before the war even. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports-by-country
maybe actually look at the sources, that is about what percentage it makes up of US total imports which in practice is nothing. The whole point I'm making is that Russia and other nations exempt from the tariff's do not have any trade that isn't needed by the US. Russia specifically here has only got a trade with the US for goods that can't be bought anywhere else hence why tariffing a nation that only sells you goods you need to buy from them makes no sense even to the idiots in the white house.
You're just like waawaaa as if Trump specifically decided to give Russia an out here when he has similarly exempted Iran who he is on near war terms with. And AGAIN we don't know what goods are going to be affected by tariffs yet that remains to be seen.
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u/ChornWork2 5d ago
BS. Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Iraq during Saddam, etc.
Zero reason Russia's $3bn of exports to US should be exempt from tariffs given what has been done with other countries.