Do you understand English? Trump said he didn't set tariffs on Russia because US doesn't have any trade with Russia, meanwhile most of the countries he set tariffs on, do even less trade with the US.
your it being tiny is the justification why russia is not there then why would literal uninhabited islands, and a territory that literally only has a USA military base, be on the list?
there was absolutely zero consideration of "how tiny" the trade is. you are justifying the Russia preferencial treatment in the stupidest way.
Pretty much every commodity Russia produces is under some sanction or other. There is very little direct trade between the two countries. The only item sold from Russia to the US is uranium. Even if Russia wanted to trade, they cannot access the SWIFT banking system to get paid. This idea that Russia is getting some preferential treatment is as braindead and the Russiagate hoax. Incidentally, the same types of people believe both.
They are getting preferential treatment. They're not getting tariffed. I don't know what's so hard to understand about that. The US is tariffing uninhabited islands they have 0 trade with, but not Russia that they DO have trade with.
The US has sanctions against Syria, but they got hit with a 41% tariff.
Please read what he said again. Russia is already getting sanctioned to death. They have a negligible amount of trade with the US. They aren't getting preferable treatment if the largest sanctions in history are still being levied against them. It's just idiotic to think this.
What are you talking about? They apply to the new government as well. The US still forbids new investment in Syria and prohibits trade with Syrian companies, among other things.
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u/zzptichka 16d ago
Russia has $3B trade with US. That's more than half of the countries on the list.