Russia is not on Trump's tariff list
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Strange, what reason did the USA give for economically attacking all of their trading partners except Russia and Russia's close allies?
Who cares, its just lies anyway.
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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.
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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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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.
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.
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FFS people, sanctioned countries were not included. Somalia, Burkina Faso....also not included.
Let them deal in baseless conspiracy. Please deal in fact here.
Why? Isn't that the easiest lowest hanging fruit possible?
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Strange, what reason did the USA give for economically attacking all of their trading partners except Russia and Russia's close allies?
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Yeah, sanctioned countries didn't make the list. It's that simple.
Did Somalia make the list either? No. Same reason.
Yeah, sanctioned countries didn't make the list.
Iran and Syria made the list.
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FFS people, sanctioned countries were not included. Somalia, Burkina Faso....also not included.
Let them deal in baseless conspiracy. Please deal in fact here.
FFS people, sanctioned countries were not included
Iran and Syria were included.
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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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Yep, it's fertilizer and related exempt at inputs. Prior to the war trade with Russian was closer to $30B.
Let them deal in baseless conspiracy
so it's probably too complicated for ChatGPT
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Our trade with the penguins were also zero. We terriffed the penguins anyway!
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FFS people, sanctioned countries were not included
Iran and Syria were included.
And so were uninhabited islands. I'm not saying these people are geniuses. I'm saying that Grok probably said to skip sanctioned countries and they got that mostly right.
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Yeah, sanctioned countries didn't make the list.
Iran and Syria made the list.
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.
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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.
"What? That can't be so..."
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Let them deal in baseless conspiracy
so it's probably too complicated for ChatGPT
There's a possibility that someone used an LLM to formulate the tariff percentages. That's not baseless, there's evidence based on replication and similar language in the USTR site.
Which makes it a funny joke to suggest that they did the entire tariff plan top to bottom in ChatGPT.
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And so were uninhabited islands. I'm not saying these people are geniuses. I'm saying that Grok probably said to skip sanctioned countries and they got that mostly right.
Or, much more simply, Trump didn't want to make Putin mad.
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There's a possibility that someone used an LLM to formulate the tariff percentages. That's not baseless, there's evidence based on replication and similar language in the USTR site.
Which makes it a funny joke to suggest that they did the entire tariff plan top to bottom in ChatGPT.
There's also a much stronger possibility that Trump simply didn't want to piss off Putin.
Why are you trying to find a more complicated answer?
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sanctions limits trade? but countries with hardly any trade with US are getting tariffs.
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.
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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.
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.
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Or, much more simply, Trump didn't want to make Putin mad.
So then why did Somalia or Burkina Faso not make the list? Does Putin care about them? Not really.
Occam's razor here is pretty easy to see as "Sanctioned counties, and we missed two."
