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President Donald Trump announced a program April 2 that imposes 10 percent tariffs for astir countries, including 1 lone inhabited by penguins.
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Not adjacent the penguins are exempt from Donald Trump’s tariffs.
On April 3, the president announced a caller program that implements a cosmopolitan 10 percent tariff connected imports to the U.S., arsenic good arsenic higher tariffs for dozens of prime countries.
Among the places that volition beryllium facing the plan’s caller import taxes see Australian territories Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which are adjacent the Arctics. But these islands—which presently incorporate progressive volcanoes—are wholly uninhabited by humans. In fact, it takes a two-week travel by vessel from Perth to adjacent entree the islands.
"Since the archetypal landing connected Heard Island successful 1855, determination person been lone astir 240 shore-based visits to the island,” notes the Australian Antarctic Program website, “and lone 2 landings connected McDonald Island (in 1971 and 1980).”
And with the worth of each items imported by the U.S. successful 2024 adding up to zero, the 10 percent tariff volition seemingly lone impact the penguins and seals that telephone the tiny territories home.
However, these islands aren’t the lone astir barren lands that are facing Trump’s tariffs. Jan Mayen Island, which has a colonisation of zero, is facing the aforesaid circumstances. But successful this case, the Norwegian volcanic island’s polar bears will, er, carnivore witnesser to the caller plan.
Meanwhile, the Falkland Islands, which is simply a British overseas territory successful the Atlantic, has a colonisation of 3,200 radical and astir 1 cardinal penguins. Now, the distant archipelago is facing tariffs of 41 percent. Meanwhile, Britain itself lone faces 10 percent tariffs.
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Norfolk Island, which is different Australian territory that has conscionable implicit 2,000 inhabitants, is besides facing exponentially higher tariffs than its mainland with a whopping 29 percent.
“I’m not definite what Norfolk Island’s large exports are to the United States and wherefore it’s been singled out, but it has,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters aft Trump’s announcement, per CBS News. “I’m not rather definite that Norfolk Island, with respect to it, is simply a commercialized rival with the elephantine system of the United States, but that conscionable shows and exemplifies the information that obscurity connected Earth is harmless from this.”
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