Russia not on Trump's tariff list
www.bbc.com
US media quotes the White House press secretary as saying this is because of sanctions on Moscow.

Summary

Russia was excluded from Trump’s sweeping tariff list due to existing U.S. sanctions that limit trade, White House officials claimed.

Despite lower trade volumes, countries like Syria were still included, prompting skepticism.

Trump has prioritized ending the war in Ukraine and threatened 50% tariffs on nations buying Russian oil. Russian state media framed the omission as sanctions-based, not favoritism, with some mocking Trump’s harsher stance on allies.

Ukraine, meanwhile, faces a 10% tariff despite the country’s strategic partnership with the U.S.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    183·
    15 days ago

    Cuba, Belarus and North Korea were also not included

    At least they’re being consistent. If Biden had excluded Russia along with those countries from some global economic policy, I wouldn’t be suspicious.

    • joekar1990@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      15 days ago

      It’s probably dumber than you think why they weren’t on there. The formula they used to come up with the countries tarrifs rate is based simply on trade deficit calculations. So if you aren’t exporting/importing from those countries they wouldn’t be included. It doesn’t even matter if there was a trade surplus.

      Sources:

      https://www.ft.com/content/e025d7e6-512d-4e82-9c25-7900b94ac153

      https://news.sky.com/story/do-trumps-tariff-numbers-add-up-after-liberation-day-announcement-13340903

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        29·
        15 days ago

        This can’t explain the exclusion of Russia, since the entirely uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands got their own entry on the list. There cannot be a trade balance with a place where nobody lives. The islands got the “base rate” of 10%, so for Russia to have been excluded there has to have been another reason

        • joekar1990@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          15 days ago

          Honestly they probably plugged it into Grok and asked it to spit out the list of countries to tariff.

      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        35·
        15 days ago

        I don’t see how that’s related to excluding particular countries.

        Edit: What I mean is that I don’t understand how you conclude

        So if you aren’t exporting/importing from those countries they wouldn’t be included. It doesn’t even matter if there was a trade surplus.

        based on the formula.

    • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      210·
      15 days ago

      Yeah, sanctioned countries didn’t make the list. It’s that simple.

      Did Somalia make the list either? No. Same reason.

      • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
        81·
        14 days ago

        Yeah, sanctioned countries didn’t make the list.

        Iran and Syria made the list.

        • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          14 days ago

          Yeah, and these people are idiots that can’t do anything right. There’s as many sanctioned countries accidentally included as there are islands inhabited entirely by penguins.