Trump announces 25% tariff on countries 'doing business' with Iran(www.ft.com)
14 pointsby alephnerd5 hours ago3 comments
  • tjpnz2 hours ago
    147 countries import oil from Iran. Whether the idiot in chief could name even one of them is debatable, but it does include a significant number of supposed US allies.
    • workfromspacean hour ago
      > 147 countries import oil from Iran

      Could you please provide source to this claim? I asked ChatGPT but it didn't know :( Sorry...

      • tjpnzan hour ago
        >Iran, a member of the OPEC oil producers group, exported products to 147 trading partners in 2022, according to World Bank’s most recent data.

        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/trump-tariff...

        • workfromspacean hour ago
          Oh, thank you very much. That was very helpful.

          I asked ChatGPT again for the source of 147, with that quote, which replied me:

          > I don’t know the full list of those 147 countries because the publicly available World Bank summary statistics provide only the total number, not a ready-made list of all partners. The detailed underlying data (e.g., from UN Comtrade or the World Bank’s WITS interface) would be required to extract the complete set of partner names.

          So I went to the World Bank WITS for Iran's oil exports and the latest data shows 65 partner countries: https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/IRN/Yea...

          These are just for the oil. Probably the number of countries with any active trade with Iran is higher.

          ( PS: Also don't get me wrong; I didn't ask the question or did the research to try to prove you wrong; I am just curious to learn more about it. I was primarily curious how is still a trade with Iran, and if the sanctions against Iran has ever changed since 2022 - especially after Russian invasion of Ukraine )

  • xenospn4 hours ago
    Always Putin's bitch.
  • SilverElfin4 hours ago
    Weirdly low tariff. When Trump is threatening some countries with 500% tariffs, it is absurd to think this low tariff means anything. It looks a lot more like capitulation. My feeling is that Trump is weak on China, and for suspicious reasons.
    • tjpnz2 hours ago
      Because the US economy is more fragile than most would care to admit, and China could wreck a not insignificant percentage of it overnight.
    • seanmcdirmid4 hours ago
      A lot of economic activity tanks in the USA if China is treated too harshly. Manufacturing has actually gone down since Trump took office largely because of his tariffs.
      • actionfromafar2 hours ago
        We must make America great at competing with Vietnam again! A great leap backward! Lower the value of the dollar so the American worker will be motivated to do menial work greatly and cheaply.