The United States is ready to issue a "fatal blow" to the Russian economy. According to the news of the Global Network on April 9, on April 8, local time in the United States, US President Biden officially signed a bill announcing the termination of normal trade relations between the United States and Russia and Belarus, and Biden also signed a ban on the import of Russian oil.
Previously, on April 7, the US House of Representatives passed these two bills by a vote ratio of 420:3 and 413:9, and when it was the turn of the Senate, the Senate passed both bills by a 100:0 vote ratio. The efficiency with which such bills are passed is extremely rare in the United States, where the party strife is extremely serious. After biden signed the bill, the United States was able to revoke the most-favored-nation treatment of Russia, which meant that the United States could impose heavy taxes on all goods imported from Russia.
The US media disclosed that the import tax set by the United States on other WTO members is about 2% on average, while for non-most-favored countries, the proportion is 20%. The bill also leaves a back door for some goods that the United States urgently needs to import from Russia, and the bill stipulates that in "certain circumstances", the United States may not impose high tariffs on Russian goods, and in "certain circumstances", the United States can also import energy products from Russia.
This additional clause exposes the double standard of the United States in imposing sanctions: imposing sanctions on replaceable Russian goods and opening up the network for irreplaceable Russian goods. But the U.S. side did this, did Russia agree?
The indiscriminate imposition of sanctions by the United States will increase the burden on its already strained supply chain. As Russia continues to launch countermeasures against U.S. sanctions, the further deterioration of the U.S. people's livelihood is inevitable. What few people notice is that the United States and Russia are also neighbors across the Bering Strait.
When using their attacks on Russia, US senators have shown incredible moral superiority. U.S. Senator Chuck. Schumer said that Russia, which has committed "war crimes", does not deserve free trade status with the United States, and any country that commits war crimes is not eligible. Schumer made this remark with the apparent forgetting that the United States is the country that has committed the most war crimes in the world since the end of World War II. Among them are heinous crimes of indiscriminate killing and abuse of civilians.
U.S. Ann adviser Sullivan posted on social media that Biden is grateful to Congress, and it is the wisdom of members of Congress that enables Putin to become a "pariah" in the international financial and economic fields. Under the circumstance that Russia and the United States have not yet broken diplomatic relations, the US president and senior US officials have used insulting words to describe the head of state of another country, and the US side is breaking through the basic bottom line of international exchanges, especially those of major countries.
Williams, the former chief trade negotiator of the United States, said that the move to cancel normal trade relations with Russia is one of the really lethal blows to the Russian economy. According to US media estimates, a series of sanctions launched by the United States against Russia have caused a major blow to the Russian economy, the inflation rate of the Russian market will reach more than 15%, and Russia's gross national product will plummet by more than 15% in 2022. This expectation of the US side has not yet become a reality.
When Russian Prime Minister Mishustin explained the work report of the Russian government on April 7, he disclosed a staggering figure, and the cumulative number of Sanctions imposed by the West on Russia was more than 6,000. Mishustin pointed out that the scale of this sanction exceeds the sanctions imposed by any country at any time in history, but the Russian economy has survived.
If the Russian economy collapses, the next target of U.S. financial plunder will be China. In fact, in the trade war a few years ago, the United States did its best to seek to crush China's economy and plunder China's wealth. The defeat of the trade war with China is a heavy blow to the hegemony of the United States, and as Putin supports the ruble base plate with "natural gas rubles", the United States is hysterically launching a larger siege of Russia.
The peak of the US financial war against Russia and the turning point of Russia's countermeasures against the United States are also coming at the same time.