The White House did not include adversarial nations like Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and Belarus in the new “Liberation Day” tariffs, a decision which Trump administration officials defended.
An unnamed White House official told The Hill on Thursday that those nations “are not subject to the Reciprocal Tariff Executive Order because they are already facing extremely high tariffs, and our previously imposed sanctions preclude any meaningful trade with these countries.”
The official continued by noting that Trump “recently threatened to impose strong sanctions on Russia.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt likewise told Axios on Wednesday that Russia was omitted because American sanctions already “preclude any meaningful trade.”
She added that Cuba, Belarus, and North Korea were not included because they already experience high tariffs
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