Years of increasingly severe sanctions may have made its inclusion in Donald Trump’s tariffs list unnecessary, but Russia has nevertheless managed to import goods for $22 billion into the United States since 2022,

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.