Russia Not on US Tariff List Despite Broad Global Reach | Sweden Herald
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I wasn’t claiming this was the only reason, just that it’s one possible factor. Here are some sources that highlight Russia’s role in supplying critical materials like palladium, titanium (via Kazakhstan), and nuclear fuel. While alternative sources exist, replacing Russian supplies isn’t immediate or simple.
Import Sources (2019–22): Palladium: Russia, 32%; South Africa, 31%; Italy, 8%; Canada, 7%; and other, 22%.
Source: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-platinum-group.pdfPalladium is critical to the U.S. economy and national security. Russia is the largest supplier of the metal to the United States.
Source: https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/executive_briefings/ebot_russia_palladium_and_semiconductors.pdfApparently there was no titanium sponge import directly from Russia since 2022 sanctions. However 9% of imports come from Kazakhstan (VSMPO-AVISMA subsidiaries)
Source: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-titanium.pdfUS scrambles to break reliance on Russian nuclear fuel
Russia had a monopoly on HALEU until recently. Despite U.S. effort to remedy tis issue for them their nuclear industry still faces challenges in meeting its HALEU needs domestically.
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/7ead1252-70a5-4258-8d0c-b01a65bd61f1 -
Well, as much as I'd love a dramatic spy backstory, I’m afraid I’m neither an FSB nor an FBI agent. Just a regular person thinking out loud. I don’t have a definitive answer, just some suppositions. I share them so we can all explore the topic with arguments and counterarguments; no secret dossiers required! Open to hearing different perspectives.
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I wondered the same thing. Why would you add tariffs if it's illegal to even trade with them?
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But McDonald island is ripping the USA off!!!!
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I miss Gilbert
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They forged it.
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Guys I think there's some evidence that this is, shall we say, Russia friendly (such as the astronomical tariff rate on Moldova of all places), but Russia isn't included because it's a "Column 2" country alongside Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea, and therefore all subject to the stiff tariffs we already impose on the worst of the worst. Please let's not share things like this which just make us look gullable to the morons on the right supporting this buffoon. It's not a good look.
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I'm sad now.
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Do people not realize there is no US Russia trade so tariffs would be moot.
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So US imposed tariff on penguins, but 0 on Russia!
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I find it funny than instead of at least imposing 10% tariff by default on Russia and selectively exempt critical resources. Russian wasn't listed at all.
Even an unoccupied island got 10% tariff by default.
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Systems that have voting mechanisms result in hive minds. It's an inevitable result.
1st someone is much more likely to vote something up or down depending on how positive / negative it is. So it snowballs sort of like compounding interest
2nd the simplest most common denominator takes bubble to the top. Precisely because more people can understand and therefore vote.
It's why you'll always see some screenshot of Twitter much higher than a long in depth article. Even though the article has infinitely more value.
