Trump tariffs: How island of penguins and seals ended up on list
Trump tariffs: How island of penguins and seals ended up on list
The remote Heard and McDonald Islands haven't been visited by humans in almost a decade.
Good article, but it doesn't really answer the headline question beyond
Australian trade minister Don Farrell told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the tariffs were "clearly a mistake".
"Poor old penguins, I don't know what they did to Trump, but, look, I think it's an indication, to be honest with you, that this was a rushed process."
A theory I heard that's just stupid enough to seem plausible with this administration,
Just when I thought it couldn't get any dumber. Is there no bottom they won't race to?
TL;DR: the trump administration is utterly swimming in complete fucking idiots.
But in 2022 the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m; ) from the territory, nearly all of it unnamed "machinery and electrical" products.
Exactly... That's a sad attempt by the bbc to try and make sense out of this instead of calling it for what it is, idiotic.
Four Seasons Landscaping has entered the chat...
My conspiracy theory is that some Australian company is evading taxes or laundering money by routing it through Heard Island and it shows up as a small amount of import/export dollars.
It's got to be something like that, there was something like $1.3m of machinery exports from an island populated by penguins. Someone was doing something naughty, and whilst the way these tarrifs are calculated is idiotic, it's fun that it's exposed sonething like this.
We have the dumbest people in America running out country now. Thank you MAGA America really is a representative form of government.