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“Protected” from penalties and a negligible change: the Russian Federationalongside nations reminiscent of Belarusia, North Korea e Cubadoesn’t seem on the checklist of the 185 nations or territories (nearly all around the world) that can see burned by the charges of Donald Trump their exports to the United States. An absence that screeches at this second, additionally as a result of it’s mixed with the inclusion within the checklist ofUkrainein addition to the opposite former Soviet republics, from Kazakhstan all’Armenia.

The first clarification offered derives from the weak spot of the Etcharization between Russia and the United States, which even earlier than the invasion of Ukraine has by no means been akin to the figures that bind Moscow toEuropean Union or to the Chinahis first industrial accomplice. Last August, Russian exports to the United States dropped to the minimal stage since January 1993, a quantity of 84.4 million {dollars}. The decline is obvious over time: Russian items for 35 billion {dollars} exported to the USA in 2021, 14.44 in 2022, 4.57 billion in 2023, 3.5 billion in 2024. “A decline linked to the introduction of sanctions and commercial restrictions against Moscow due to the special military operation”, summarizes the tax referring to the struggle in Ukraine.

War, penalties and exchanges

To make a comparability in relation to 2022, the 12 months of invasion, on the time the change between Russia and China was equal to 190.7 billion {dollars}, that between Russia and EU 257.5 billion euros: since then the primary has grown as much as a report of 244.8 billion in 2024, the second has diminished to 67.6 billion euros. But for the United Stateseven when Trump overturns the frustration for the slowness of the peace course of on the specter of new penalties in Moscow, more and more extreme, the maneuver margin is proscribed even when the American president could be pondering of imposing secondary sanctions towards nations that proceed to purchase Russian oil, ranging from India and China.

Russia has been excluded from the checklist as a result of the American sanctions “already preclude any significant exchange”, defined the spokesperson to Axios White homeKaroline Leavitt. For Russia, they level out a number of observers requested by the Ria-Novosto company, the charges already in pressure vary from 35 to 200%: the classes of excluded merchandise, whether or not they’re fertilizers or platinum, are strategic and essential for the USA. “In fact, an exchange between Russia and the United States almost does not exist -Mikhail Zeltzer points out, financial analyst -. The exchange collapsed compared to 1992, and the sanctions are so many that introducing other rates does not make sense ».

Two weights and two measures?

However, reality, against the background of the rapprochement between Trump and Vladimir Putinis not only in the figures: the same American publication points out that countries such as the Mauritius or the Bruneithe old Svalbardwhich with the US exchanges even less than Moscow. However, if in this phase Trump wants to avoid frictions with the Kremlin – a relaxation testified by the presence of Kirill Dmitriev’s presence in Washington, Putin’s envoy for foreign investments, the first high official to return to the USA from the invasion of Ukraine – the American president could also have excluded Russia now from the “black checklist” to order the best to reintegrate it, maybe with a decree aside, within the Putin case. Tell.