Trump’s trade war targets an island full of penguins, but Russia faces no new tariffs

They are already facing extremely high tariffs, and our previously imposed sanctions preclude any meaningful trade with these countries."

A White House official told The New York Times

Russia is not on this list because sanctions from the Ukraine war have already rendered trade between the two countries as zero."

Another official said

The most recent visit by humans that I’m aware of was a three-week visit of amateur radio operators in 2016,

Coffin said

Until the dust has settled, so to speak, it's a bit of watch and wait,

McNeill said

David Carter (politician)the restaurateur

Ultimately our customers would just decide whether they can afford the tax. Maybe you lose some of the retailers and stay in some of the more high-end restaurant space where you can carry the premium a bit better. We really are in uncharted territory,

Carter added

The purpose of the Chinese government's implementation of export controls on relevant items in accordance with the law is to better safeguard national security and interests, and to fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation,

the Commerce Ministry said in a statement, per Reuters

Mark Warnersenator

It is astonishing that President Trump would fire the nonpartisan leader of the NSA while still failing to hold any member of his team accountable for leaking classified information on Signal – even as he apparently takes staffing direction from a discredited conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office,

Indianapolis Senator Mark Warner said

Disruptive U.S. policies has been recognized as the biggest risk to the global outlook all year,

Kasman wrote in a research note Thursday

The increase in our recession probability reflects the sharp deterioration in household and business confidence in the outlook over the last month,

its report stated

Penguins leaving Heard Island and McDonald Island. is THIS what you voted for?"

In another post, a video was shared by a social media user where some penguins have a backpack attacked to their backs with caption

Even if Musk leaves, Muskism will not leave with him,

said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of the nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen

Everyone will be a loser; some will be bigger losers than others,

Nick Nigro with Atlas Public Policy told David

If you want stuff being put in the ground, you have to tell people the price, and the price needs to be fully inclusive of the tariff risk,

one former administration official in Trump’s first term told Victoria

Tanya Chutkanjudge

Here we are, weeks in, and you’re still unable to proffer me any information with regard to any kind of investigation or malfeasance,

said Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, while pressing a Justice Department attorney to explain the Environmental Protection Agency’s reasoning for ending the grants last month

The fact that countries that charge zero tariffs on the U.S. have been hit with tariffs illustrates that these are not reciprocal tariffs in their true meaning,

Tintelnot says

Treating all of the small developing countries the same way as you're treating the European Union… that seems to be outrageous,

Bethune says

Let's say the trade deficit in Vietnam shrinks over the next year. Well, then the tariff rate also should change. But now market participants need to forecast how much the trade deficit with individual countries will change,

Tintelnot says

Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners….To conceptualize reciprocal tariffs, the tariff rates that would drive bilateral trade deficits to zero were computed.”

The Office of the United States Trade Representative confirmed Trump’s tariff math in an explainer, stating

To all of the foreign Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings, Queens, ambassadors and everyone else who will soon be calling to ask for exemptions from these tariffs, I say: ‘Terminate your own tariffs, drop your barriers, don't manipulate your currencies,

Trump said while speaking from the Rose Garden at the White House

Donald Trump slapped tariffs on penguins and not on Putin,

posted US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, referring to the fact that Russia was not on the US tariff list