Comment by _heimdall
15 days ago
Aren't you cherry picking to make a point though? Certainly there are impacts on other countries though, and they're likely aligned (in theory) with their stated concern that countries are leveraging trade deficits to take advantage of the US.
> Tariff an island inhabited only by Penguins
This would be a great sound bite, but its also entirely useless. If the only inhabitants are penguins then a tariff on paper means nothing, they just avoided having to write one-off exceptions.
>they just avoided having to write one-off exceptions.
They did do one-off exceptions though. They excluded Iran, North Korea, and Russia from the list.
Do we have any appreciable trade with them? I would have thought existing sanctions packages approved by congress would supersede this.
3 billion USD apparently. lots smaller than in the past, but still bigger than quite a few countries that did get listed.