The U.S. did not include Russia on its "Liberation Day" tariff list as the existing sanctions "preclude any meaningful trade," Axios reported on April 3, citing White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.

US President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on many countries around the world, setting a minimum rate of 10%. Ukraine has also been included in the new

One country that did not feature on Donald Trump's list of tariffs on US trade partners was Russia. US outlet Axios quoted White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as saying this was because existing US sanctions on Russia "preclude any meaningful trade" and noting that Cuba, Belarus and North Korea were also not included.

The Kremlin was among a handful of countries noticeably exempt from Trump’s decision to slap a 10% baseline tariff on all imports to the US, as well as higher duties on some of its biggest

The Trump administration says sanctions imposed on Moscow mean the U.S. does little trade with Russia, but questions persist about the motivations.

Years of increasingly severe sanctions may have made its inclusion in Donald Trump’s tariffs list unnecessary, but Russia has nevertheless managed to import

A bizarre formula, some strange inclusions and exclusions, and some allies who sought to avoid the tariffs left in the lurch.

The United States did not impose duties on imports of goods from Russia and Belarus, as products from these countries are not supplied to the USA. This was stated by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in an interview with Fox News.

President Trump's sweeping new set of tariffs impact friends and foe alike, but also on the list are uninhabited islands while glaring omissions include Russia and Iran.