r/worldnews • u/MothersMiIk • 8d ago

Russia/Ukraine Russia, Belarus excluded from Trump's sweeping tariffs list due to existing sanctions, White House says

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-missing-from-trumps-sweeping-tariffs-list-as-its-already-sanctioned-white-house-confirms/
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u/Fistulated 8d ago

Russia - the US imported $3.2 billion in goods and exported $595 million. Trade deficit of 2.7 billion, no tariffs.

You've tariffed countries with less trade and less trade deficit. . .

It's all looking a bit Sus to me

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u/Ktizila 8d ago

he will tariff the peguins (from Heard and McDonald island) before Putin. now I know who and why someone calling him kind..

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u/nonspecificloser 8d ago

“McDonald’s island? We must have it for security purposes. It’ll be the biggest real estate deal ever made, guaranteed” - Trump, probably

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u/WestsideBuppie 8d ago

Is that where the wild hamburgers grow? Or is it where Ronald McDonald was born?

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u/dexter311 8d ago

*hamberders

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u/senraku 8d ago

Trump is trying to go down as the best real estate tycoon of all time. He sells entire countries