Why Russia was left off Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs list

Fuente: New York Post

The White House on Thursday clarified its decision to keep Russia off President Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs list after it raised some eyebrows, explaining that Moscow already faced tough sanctions — and the threat of even more loomed large. The Kremlin was among a handful of countries noticeably exempt from Trump’s decision to slap a 10% baseline tariff on all imports to the US, as well as higher duties on some of its biggest global trading partners. Russia’s absence from the exhaustive list, which was unveiled Wednesday, was down to previously imposed sanctions already preventing “any meaningful trade” with Moscow, a White House official confirmed to The Post.