Why is Russia not on Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariff list? | DW News

For weeks Donald Trump has promised that "all countries" in the world would be hit by higher US tariffs. But some countries were notably absent from the list Trump presented at the White House - including Russia, Belarus, Cuba and North Korea. The reason, according to administration officials, is that Cuba, Belarus and North Korea already face high tariffs and tough sanctions. And the US has no meaningful trade with Russia.

00:00 Russia not on Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariff list
00:30 Elina Ribakova, Peterson Institute for International Economics