r/IntellectualDarkWeb • u/Desperate-Fan695 • 3d ago

Why no tariffs on Russia?

As we learned yesterday, Trump's calculated "tariffs charged" by foreign countries aren't actually tariffs but rather based on trade deficits with a minimum of 10%.

The tariffs apply to 185 different countries and territories. Even extending to remote, uninhabited islands that have no trade with the US.

So the question I have... why not Russia? Not only do we still trade with Russia, we have a 2.5 billion dollar trade deficit with them. By Trumps own criteria, they should have been on the list. It seems we're really not beating the claims of allegiance to Putin.

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u/Chistachs 3d ago

I hate Trump, and these tariffs are dumb as hell, but….this is a really stupid take lol.

There was no tariff imposed on Russia because there’s no meaningful trade with Russia…We’ve already sanctioned the shit out of them, tariffs wouldn’t have done a thing.

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u/Shortymac09 3d ago

Considering we did 3.5 billion dollars in trade with them last year, I don't think that is insignificant.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjl3k1we8vo

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u/Chistachs 3d ago

Do you understand what sanctions are? There was a 34% decrease in trade between 2023 and 2024

This is not meaningful trade lmao

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u/lousy-site-3456 2d ago

Sanctions are most of the time specific to certain exports or imports. There is no blanket embargo on trade with Russia. Putting terrace on the products that are actually still imported from Russia would make perfect sense. On the other hand there is a country that has a blanket embark and that is Iran and they get a tariff.