[pyk]

During a world war, you cannot trade with your international “enemies.”

This level of tariffs is to discourage international dependency and trade as a prelude to war. Look who does not have a tariff.

This is not good policy - leading economists have written about this [1] as “…perhaps the worst economic own goal I have seen in my lifetime.”

[1] https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-liberation-day-was-even

[glial]

This is both the most rational and most depressing take I have seen yet.

[askvictor]

As I understand it, there is a trade embargo on Russia, so there's no trade to put a tariff on.

[gbear605]

You’d be wrong. The US imported 3.5 billion dollars of goods from Russia in 2024, and exported 500 million dollars of goods.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia...

[disambiguation]

And recent trade data for context.

In 2018, U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $20.9 billion, up 22.4 percent ($3.8 billion) from 2017, but down 22.1 percent from ten years ago.

[onlypassingthru]

I've seen some recently manufactured Russian plywood for sale in the US that would disprove that claim.

[unrealhoang]

There is, and it’s much more than an unknown penguin island.