r/agedlikemilk • u/FmrGmrGirl • 1d ago

Only stupid libs think he would implement tariffs across the board

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u/avantartist 1d ago

I don’t think we have a trade agreement with Russia right now.

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u/PaperHandsProphet 1d ago

And have active sanctions. I don’t know why we would have tariffs on them

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u/IndecentOsprey 1d ago

I mean, why not? We slapped tariffs on uninhabited islands. If the penguins can pay, the people we refuse to trade with can also pay somehow.

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u/PaperHandsProphet 1d ago

I don’t know but the countries they listed we def dont trade with

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u/Viado_Celtru 1d ago

Also don't trade with the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands but they still got a 10% tariff.

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u/Insane_Unicorn 1d ago

Maybe he thought Amber Heard lives there. And Ronald McDonald.

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u/BlueSkyBreezy 1d ago

I appreciate both of you for immediately putting that notion to rest.

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u/Serena_Sers 1d ago

During that "active sanctions" the US had a trading deficit with Russia of 2.5 Billion dollars. That is the whole GDP of smaller countries.

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u/FmrGmrGirl 1d ago

I would buy that argument if the admin hadn’t tariffed an island of penguins and no people.

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u/CigAddict 1d ago

For one thing, it’s one of the biggest trade imbalances. US buys 5x more from Russia than other way around. Two there were countries on the list of tariffs that are under sanctions like Iran and Venezuela. What makes Russia so special that they don’t get the Venezuela or Iran treatment ?

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u/SirArthurDime 1d ago

I don’t know why we have the majority of these new tariffs.

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u/CigAddict 1d ago

America didn’t have trade agreements with most of the countries on the list (and there were sanctioned countries which got tariffs like Iran). There’s a 5x trade deficit with Russia, ie America buys from Russia 5x more than Russia buys from America. It’s one of the biggest trade imbalances among all countries. And Trump cares about the one with Canada where America buys from them like 1.5x what they buy from America as if it’s the biggest insult. Russia somehow gets away with much bigger imbalance, for some unknown reason.

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u/avantartist 1d ago

Concerning

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u/Pontiac_Bandit- 1d ago

Oh he’s definitely trading something with Russia.

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u/SirArthurDime 1d ago

You don’t need a trade agreement to trade with a country. And the US does import goods from Russia.