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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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 21 hours ago

Uninhabited islands: tariffs

Allies: tariffs

Israel: believe it or not, tariffs

Russia: crickets

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Strange, what reason did the USA give for economically attacking all of their trading partners except Russia and Russia's close allies?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Our trade with the penguins were also zero. We terriffed the penguins anyway!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Who cares, its just lies anyway.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He certainly isn't trying to beat those "Russian asset" allegations is he?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

What? Comrade Krasnov? A Russian asset? Never!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining,[1] New York

America used to have standards.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Funny you bring up that couple, because the lack of standards has a through line here.

A man named Roy Cohn was the prosecutor, and he wheeled and dealed to make sure that both Rosenbergs got the death penalty, even if the evidence was a bit weak, especially the evidence against Ethel. Cohn got witnesses to change their story so that he could push to kill Ethel.

Cohn then went on to help Joseph McCarthy run the Red, and Lavender Scares.

And then, later still, Roy Cohn would tutor Donald Trump in the art of personally attacking anyone who tried to enforce the law against him.

The piece of shit finally died of HIV,

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

TIL, thank you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

And a whole nation's gotta take it in the behind for this. Classic king of the hill stuff.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

The island populated by penguins has to pay tariffs but not Russia. Ok

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago

But uninhabited islands are

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It wasn't because of sanctions or not doing any trade with Russia, this bears repeating from the article:

However, nations with even less trade with the US - such as Syria, which exported $11m of products last year according to UN data quoted by Trading Economics - were on the list.

According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, the US imported goods from Russia worth $3.5bn (£2.7bn) in 2024. It mainly consisted of fertilisers, nuclear fuel and some metals, according to Trading Economics and Russian media.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

If I'm a politician and I'm putting tariffs in place, the one place getting annihilated by a 1,000% tariff is the place I've already sanctioned into the ground. Is that performative? Maybe. Would it prevent headlines like this? Yep.

Makes you wonder what's going on in the swamp.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All that time and money invested in agent Krasnov is really paying off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

Trump is a Russian loving traitor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sanctions limits trade? but countries with hardly any trade with US are getting tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Lesotho - 50%, Saint Pierre & Miquelon - 50%.

But seriously, American consumers should say bye bye to cheap clothes, etc. as everything there is about to get a lot more expensive. The reality is that America was prospering in parts to all those third world countries. And it is kind of stupid to think that you can replace their products with local manufacturing as you lack both the skill set on the local work force nor the salary levels.

They also kicked all their immigrants who were working those shitty low paid jobs and I am sure as hell those employers are now struggling big time to find other people willing to do the same for the same pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Interesting to see what would happen. Prices of goods in US will go up due to tariffs, similar locally made good will be expensive too due to local cost of manufacturing, labor.

Meanwhile consumer in the rest of the world are enjoying life buying cheap clothes and electronics made in SEA, China, s.america and etc.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Read all about it in this month’s riveting issue of Duh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

"What? That can't be so..."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

For example, take the figures for China:

  • Goods trade deficit: $291.9bn
  • Total goods imports: $438.9bn
  • 291.9/438.9 = 0.67, or 67%
  • And halved = 34%

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trumps-idiotic-and-flawed-tariff-calculations-stun-economists

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

You know what other place has limited trace but still got hit with tariffs? Heard Island and Mcdonald Island since they are uninhabited.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shocked I say. Shocked that Putin's puppet is not putting Tariffs on someone that is trying to take over another country.

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