In the long list of Trump there are resounding “presences” and “absences”. The president of the USwho had no inhibition on imposing tariffs even on Israel,not even dealing with Russia, North Korea or even Leborussia. And if there’s not much to say about North Korea and Belarus, Russia is not an economy with which the US has no relationship…

The war in Ukraine and the huge sanctions imposed by Joe Biden’s US have shrunk the trade balance between the two countries to unprecedented levels, but even under this regime, the US had trade of nearly $3 billion last year… The United States mainly buys fragments and platinum from Russia.

Donald Trump recently, for the first time since taking office, threatened new sanctions targeting oil and Russian natural gas, the resource from which Moscow continues to draw momentum to continue operations in the Ukrainian fields. Trump’s threat may have been first expressed to Russia but that was after two ultimately fruitless phone calls to the Kremlin and two proposals for a ceasefire. Yesterday Trump chose not to further engage Russia in a move that may involve a lot of diplomacy…

For the US president, yesterday was a day of rewriting his country’s economic policy and a clear red line regarding his priorities. Beijing, and a host of key and longstanding US allies, got American “rap”, a card that Trump did not want or need to play and with whom he currently has other types of differences and understanding.

By refraining from imposing tariffs on Russia, on the one hand Trump is keeping open the possibility of immediately making his threat to Moscow a practical one, and in a way that will hurt more than just another 10%, and on the other hand, he is sending a personal message again to Vladimir Putin that he too must immediately make a move in the field of war that interests the American president.

It is also not unlikely that Donald Trump has also considered the purely practical part of the tariffs since, as we have already mentioned, Russia exports fertilizers en masse to the US and the US president’s narrative is beyond the auto industry to “shield” farmers and ranchers. Russia is the third largest supplier to the US in this area and is the third largest supplier and is growing all the time.