r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/Virtual_Plantain_707 1d ago

Best investment they’ve ever made.

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u/ToughTalkingTurtle 1d ago

Is it true that he didn't place tariffs on Russia?

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u/Songshiquan0411 1d ago

Yes. His administration officials have tried the line of "we already sanction them, we don't really do any trade with Russia already". Okay I didn't know we did that much trade with Vanuatu but you still hit them with tariffs.

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u/FlipReset4Fun 20h ago

They didn’t need tariffs on Russia because Russia is already sanctioned. The tariffs were stupid and the amounts calculated to try to balance trade deficits, which is dumb. But we’ll have no trade deficit with a sanctioned country, so, no tariff. They’re already black balled.