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Russia Not on US Tariff List Despite Broad Global Reach | Sweden Herald (swedenherald.com)
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[+] -18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The US has been sanctioning Russia for the better part of the last decade. We aren't tariffing them because we aren't trading with them.

We also aren't tariffing Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea, for the same reasons.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Maybe, but apparently we're tariffing multiple uninhabited islands. It would seem that active trade is not a perquisite for tariffs these days. can't be having people move out there and not getting tariffed in the future.

    I hope he puts tariffs on Mars next. Maybe after he falls out with musk.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Surely American trades some products? Where does Russian vodka come from?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I was under the impression that we (in Canada) get our vodka mostly from Finland, but it's been a while since I worked as an alcohol purveyor... I'm ashamed of the things I did during those years, but I'm in recovery now, thank you for your concern

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306859/us-imports-by-commodity-from-russia/

    It does look like we import about $3B/year. Mostly fertilizers, which make up 1/3 of total imports, and some raw metals and a bit of heavy machinery. But that's minuscule beside our trade balances with the top of his tariff list - China, the EU, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and India. We do $20B/year with tiny little South Korea, as a point of comparison. We bring in $6B/year from South Africa.

    To my knowledge, we don't import Russian vodka in any significant quantity. Anything "Russian" branded is typically imported from one of the neighboring states - Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Romania. Red Army Vodka, for instance, is from a Polish company.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He slapped a 50% tarrif on Lesotho, so it's clearly not about size or impact.

    And the UK got a 10% tariff applied even though the US doesn't have a goods trade deficit with them.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    it's funny that this is being downvoted. lemmy is basically reddit. rooting for the good guys, but also dogshit stupid

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Downvoted because it’s wrong : We aren’t tariffing them because we aren’t trading with them.

    So are some inhabited islands which are hit by tariffs. Maybe the dogshit stupid is the one not seeing the ties between trump and putin.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Systems that have voting mechanisms result in hive minds. It's an inevitable result.

    1st someone is much more likely to vote something up or down depending on how positive / negative it is. So it snowballs sort of like compounding interest

    2nd the simplest most common denominator takes bubble to the top. Precisely because more people can understand and therefore vote.

    It's why you'll always see some screenshot of Twitter much higher than a long in depth article. Even though the article has infinitely more value.

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