Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia from outside the long list of affected by the tariffs imposed by the US. In the short term, you can arrive in China.
President Donald Trump has arrived a new trade policy that imposes a base tariff of 10% on imports from over 180 countries and territories.
In this long list, which is not the largest country in the world in area: the Russia.
Among those affected are China, with a 34%tariff, the European Union, with 20%, Japan, with 24%, and Taiwan, with 32%. Already Russia and the “best friend” Belarus are left out, among others, because the US does not trade with the east country, since they are sanctioned, justified Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Ao.
But the US commercial representative’s commercial data show that the US still maintained, last year, about 3.5 billion in total goods trade with Russia, including more than 526 million in exports and 3 billion in imports. The two negotiate more merchandise than some countries on the list, such as Mauritius or Brunei.
“My advice to all countries at this time is not retaliation,” the White House spokesman.
“Zangada” with Putin, Trump to Russia with new oil tariffs earlier this week. But now, some analysts say that Putin can take advantage of the new tariffs to increase trade with the China, where American suppliers will inevitably begin to lose ground, particularly in energy and agricultural exports.
Russia could increase its supply of animal products and possibly reentry in the Chinese market of the wheat.
“Perhaps the supply of animal products from Russia is a little more active and maybe Beijing addresses the issue of total admission of Russian wheat in its market,” said at Telegram Andrei Sizov, director of the Sovecon Agricultural Consulting company, quoted by.
Could also increase exports to natural gas. “Russia benefits from Chinese retaliation restrictions on that group of American products,” said Marina Amurskaya, director of the International Business Department of Russia.
However, this would be a short -term solution: Chinese American LNG and Oil Imports represent a relatively small part of their total energy imports, and Beijing also has alternative suppliers such as Myanmar and Kazakhstan – besides the strong production of China’s coal, which leaves not large space to Russian coal.
And a prolonged trade war would crash world economic growth, which would eventually impair the demand for oil and gas – Russia’s main exports.
