Anyone think russia will get an exemption from trade tariffs?

[spanone]

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yes, and give a guy some warning for evil pics...

Now I need eye bleach.

[spanone]

7. I profusely apologize....

[Wounded Bear]

9. It's all good...

[spanone]

10. 👍🏼😎

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Any Democrat caught in pictures like this would not be safe on Venus from deplorables

[Lee-Lee]

3. In fact it was engineered to do just that.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/376951-trumps-tariff-choices-ease-impact-on-china-russia-goldman-sachs

[BigmanPigman]

4. Seems to be the plan to me.

[Autumn]

5. Yes Russia will get an exemption. Why would Donnie want to hurt his country and it's President?

[FarCenter]

6. In 2015 Russia exported only about 9.5 billion to the US

We're 9th on the list in terms of Russia's export destinations. https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/russia/tradestats

[spanone]

8. i'm thinkin' that won't matter if putin wants it.

[Kablooie]

11. Do we buy steel and aluminum from Russia?

We only get 2% of our steel from China and I’ll bet we get none from Russia.
So it doesn’t affect Putin at all.

[spanone]

12. looks like it's about 9%

Trends in Imports from Top Source

The top 10 source countries for U.S. steel imports represented 78 percent of the total steel import volume in YTD 2017 at 21 million metrics tons (mmt). Canada accounted for the largest share of U.S. imports by source country at 16 percent (4.3 mmt), followed by Brazil at 13 percent (3.6 mmt), South Korea at 10 percent (2.7 mmt), Mexico at 9 percent (2.4 mmt), and Russia at 9 percent (2.4 mmt).
While the rankings of the top 10 source countries for U.S. imports has fluctuated over
time, Canada has retained the top spot.

Between YTD 2016 and YTD 2017, imports increased from eight of the United States’ top 10 import source countries. Imports from India showed the largest volume increase in YTD 2017, up 209 percent, followed by Russia (up 64%), Taiwan (up 36%), and Mexico (up 23%). The two countries which the United States had decreases in imports from are Japan (down 9%) and South Korea (down 2%).
Outside the top 10 sources, other notable volume changes included U.S. imports from 11th-ranked China (down 5%), 15th-ranked Thailand (up 274%), 18th-ranked South Africa (up 68%), and 20th- ranked United Arab Emirates (up 98%).
The overall value of U.S.
imports increased from all of
the top 10 sources. Imports
from India, Russia, and
Taiwan showed the largest
increases in value in YTD
2017, up 144 percent, 128 percent, and 55 percent, respectively.

https://www.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/imports-us.pdf

[Kablooie]

14. Ah, so we do.

It will be interesting to see if Trump gives special treatment to Russia then.

[spanone]

15. we can act like we're surprised!!!!

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Yes. First Canada and Mexico got dispensations-Russia will follow in a package with other countries.