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

Aside from climate change and pollution, penguins are now facing one more threat from humanity: President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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,

Russia was notably absent from the sweeping tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, which are set to affect almost the entire world. The White House said sanctions imposed on Moscow because of Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine had already ensured that there was no meaningful trade between the countries.

Trump promised tariffs that would mirror what other nations assess. In fact, the calculation is quite different.

The Russian stock market experienced its most challenging week in over two years due to tariffs imposed by Donald Trump and declining oil prices. The value of companies listed on the Moscow stock exchange fell by 2 trillion rubles (23,

Jaguar Land Rover will pause shipments of its Britain-made cars to the US for a month in light of president Donald Trump’s tariffs on the UK car industry. The British carmaker said it was suspending shipments while it considers how to mitigate the cost of Mr Trump’s 25 per cent tariff on UK cars.

That changed Wednesday afternoon when Trump introduced his tariff charts outlining a roughly 10 percent across-the-board tax on imports from most countries, with the numbers stretching up to 50 percent.

"We have to hit Republican states and we have to hit Donald Trump's friends," a top European official told his colleagues.