Donald Trump does not occupy Russia with other tariffs – why?

Rarely did the perspective matter. For Donald Trump it was a “day of liberation” for the rest of the world a black Wednesday, the beginning of a presumably devastating trade war.

Japan, India, the EU and of course enemy of business China, from the US government’s perspective, should finally pay for their unfair ex- and import policy. But even states whose location must google most of the time are within reach of Trump’s customs hammer: The Falkland Islands are punished with new tariffs of 42 percent, the African kingdom of Lesotho and the French overseas area Saint Pierre and Miquelon with even 50 percent.

Washington goes to the pockets a total of 180 trading partners. Nobody should get away with it, it seems. The individual extent of Trump’s anger depends on the trade deficit and a mechanism that has not yet been explained, which includes trade barriers, subsidies and other restrictions on US imports. “The idea is that we treat other countries as they treat us,” said a consultant of the US President.

Even the Ukraine war -stricken has to prepare for the new minimum tariff of ten percent – in contrast to your tormentor. Is the most important allied Kiev to today Russia?

Washington Moscow neither left out nor forgotten in his all -round overlay, Karoline Leavitt, the press spokeswoman for the White House, assures. The reason for the apparent mildness is obviously simple. The existing sanctions against Russia would already “rule out any sensible trade,” she says. However, Leavitt does not explain what the Trump administration understands by “sensible trade”. The United States acts significantly less with dozens of other countries – and yet they are now on Trump’s red list.

Another official of the White House even claimed that the United States had “reduced the trade with Russia to zero” since the beginning of the war. That’s not true. Although the exchange of goods was actually massively broken off compared to pre -war times: in 2021, from Trump’s point of view, the unfair difference between the goods from the goods from the goods out and input was still $ 23 billion. Washington did not cut the economic relationships entirely. Last year, the United States exported around $ 526 million to Russia, and at least imported goods worth three billion dollars. The bottom line is that a trade deficit of $ 2.5 billion is at the expense of the United States.

Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin is said to have pushed Trump on her phone call in mid-March to reduce punitive tariffs-as part of the US courtesy in Ukraine negotiations. Since then, however, the mood has cooled noticeably again. At the weekend, Trump had threatened Russia with new oil tariffs in a TV interview and explained that he was “pissed off” on Putin.

The argument of simply not being able to proceed even harder does not apply to every already denied trading partner. Despite the already applicable sanctions, Syria is supposed to pay 41 percent from now on and Iran pays ten percent higher tariffs. However, dictatorships such as North Korea, Belarus or Cuba are supposedly light -fashioned. Whether the existing sanctions, they are also not taken into account in the new tariffs.

The US neighbors Canada and Mexico were also not mentioned on Wednesday. However, only because Trump had already occupied it with 25 percent tariffs.

It depends on the perspective.