Donald Trump observed April 2 as "liberation day" and announced a range of tariffs on countries across the world. The US President left no stone unturned as he went on to tax islands where population comprises of penguins, seals and polar bears.
At the Liberation Day ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Trump announced new and reciprocal tariffs on countries around the globe. This list also included the remote Heard and McDonald Islands, where penguins and seals are the only population.
Donald Trump observed April 2 as "liberation day" and announced a range of tariffs on countries across the world. The US President left no stone unturned as he went on to tax islands where population comprises of penguins, seals and polar bears.
At the Liberation Day ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Trump announced new and reciprocal tariffs on countries around the globe. This list also included the remote Antarctic islands of Heard and McDonald Islands, where penguins and seals are the only population.
Heard and McDonald Islands are marked as Australia's external territory. However, these two islands have no recorded exports, because it has no humans.
Furthermore, Cocos and Christmas islands on the WA coast were slapped with a 10 percent tariff. Cocos Island has a population of 593 people (2021 census), and Christmas Island has a population of 1,692 residents (2021 census), and a majority of the residents stay on the northern edge of the Australian territory.
Trump also taxed Norfolk Island with a 29 percent tariff, which left Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese surprised.
I’m not quite sure that Norfolk Island, with respect to it, is a trade competitor with the giant economy of the United States, but that just shows and exemplifies the fact that nowhere on earth is exempt from this,” stated Albanese.
However, Heard and McDonald Islands are not the only penguin and seal areas of the globe that Trump taxed.
The Falkland Islands, home to birdlife and a population of only 3,000, has been slapped with 41 percent tariff rate.
Furthermore, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, the ice and snow covered parts of Norway have are also going to face 10 percent tariffs.