White House explains why Russia not included in Trump’s new tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-explains-why-russia-not-included-trumps-new-tariffs-2054548

by newsweek

17 comments

  1. More sanewashing from the legacy corporate media. “Here, let me explain what the senile old guy means when he says super-contradictory stuff.”

  2. “… Following Trump’s Rose Garden announcement,
    a White House official told NOTUS’ Jasmine Wright that Russia
    is “not on this list because sanctions from the Ukraine war have
    already rendered trade between the two countries as zero.” …”

    Even if zero, a tariff would be a nice symbol.
    But $4bn is not exactly zero:
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306859/us-imports-by-commodity-from-russia/
    What do we have there?
    About 1bn for fertilizers. To be transported via Black Sea I guess.
    A $876m non-ferrous metals. Nickel from dirty Norilsk, maybe Cobalt.
    Or even titanium from Armiansk, Crimea.

  3. Let me guess, it’s because Trump is secretly very angry with Putin and wants to be very tough on Russia?

  4. More on this subject from other reputable sources:

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    – Independent (C+): [Trump claims U.S. industry ‘reborn’ as he imposes sweeping tariffs on his highly touted ‘Liberation Day’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariff-announcement-taxes-countries-b2726349.html)
    – N-tv (C): [Breaking news: Trump announces reciprocal US tariffs for “the whole world”](https://www.n-tv.de/newsletter/breakingnews/Trump-kuendigt-reziproke-US-Zoelle-fuer-die-ganze-Welt-an-article25675976.html)
    – Time (B): [Trump Announces Sweeping Tariffs in Bid to Reshape U.S. Economy and World Order](https://time.com/7274039/trump-tariff-announcement/)
    – Atlanta Journal-Constitution (A-): [‘Tariffs are a tax.’ Canada funds anti-tariff billboards in metro Atlanta ](https://www.ajc.com/news/business/canada-is-paying-for-anti-tariff-billboards-around-metro-atlanta/RYZL3GBV2JBWBFOACJKIKE37OU/)

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  5. Because trump doesn’t want to make his puppet master angry enough to publish the pee pee videos with the Russian honey trap from years ago… he’d rather destroy America

  6. Because DRUMP is a Russian stooge and so are the re by ascociation

  7. lol it’s crazy to think how many Americans would eat his shit if he told them it was fudge

  13. We in Europe need to find another sorce of fuel we need to buy the smallest amount of American goods possible the only reason russis not on the list is because trumps a putin dick rider of the highest degree

  14. We did pretty well without the USA, I suppose we’ll do well without it again.

  15. I’m waiting for them to state they’re putting tarrifs on Hawaii 😆

  16. See, Trump wasn’t kidding about sending everybody in the world tariffs. We should generally assume that the more horriffic the desire, the more eager he will be to complete it.

    The big question is, how will everybody react?

    Perhaps he thinks everybody will move their headquarters to the USA and Russia? Well his previous displays of utter contempt for anybody who is not rich, white and male, his random actions, and the current state of the US economy put question marks on that.

    Presumably this is Putin’s big step towards destroying the USA’s economy.

  17. No tariffs because trade is already zero due to sanctions? Interesting. Now, explain why there are tariffs on uninhabited islands, and you are trying to lift sanctions.

    It’s clear who owns this man.

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