‘Nobody spared’: On Tramp’s Pengina’s Customs List and Island – BBC News in Serbian
The latest decision of the American President Donald Tramp on the imposition of basic duties of 10 percent to the United States and larger customs for some of the largest trading partners of that country, will also hit two few places in Antarctica, where there are no people.
These two islands have been inhabited by penguins and fox.
To the island of Herda and McDonald, 4,000 kilometers southwest of Australia, only water can come, and people did not visit them for almost ten years.
From the Australian port of Perth to these islands it takes about seven days by boat.
Tramp is 2. April He presented a comprehensive import tax plan, as a retaliation for, as he said, unjust trade barriers for American products.
New measures also affected several other Australian territories, and Norwegian Archipelago Svalbard, Falkland Islands and British territory in the Indian Ocean.
« It just shows and illustrates the fact that nowhere on earth does not have a safe place, » said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanez, a day after the tram decision.
Watch the video: Penguins, Foxes and Tramp – Tramp’s introduction of customs Islands where there are no people
Like the rest of Australia, and the Islands of Herd, McDonald, Coconut (Killing), as well as Christmas island, are imposed by ten percent.
Norfolk island (also Australian territory) with 2,200 inhabitants was introduced by a customs of 29 percent.
However, HERD island is infertile, Ice and completely uninhabited, but also the home of the largest and only active volcano in Australia, Big Bena.
It is mainly covered with glaciers.
It is believed that people last visited him in 2016. when a group of radio amateurs emitted the program, with the permission of the Australian government.
Mike Kofin, from the University of Tasmania, was seven times in those areas for scientific research and is suspicious about the existence of great exports with Ostrava in America.
« There’s nothing there, » he said about the BBC.
How much he knows, there are only two Australian companies that hunt and export Patagonian teeth and ice skyrocket.
However, what is in abundance is a unique and spectacular nature.
The islands are in the United Nations’ sedent – United Nations Agency for Education, Science and Culture – as a rare example of an ecosystem intact human influence or invasive vegetable and animal species.
« There are a large number of penguins, seals, elephants and various types of sea birds, » Kofin said, who studies the underwater geography of the island.
He remembers that he was watching what he thought was the beach, to « turn out that several 100,000 penguins were probably there. »
What a trade relationship between these islands and America is hard to say.
World Bank Export Data show that the islands in the last few years usually exported a small amount of product in the United States.
However, America is 2022. imported all unnamed « machine and electrical » products from these territories worth 1.4 million US dollars.
The BBC addressed the Administration for the International Trade of the American Secretariat for Trade, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Australia Trade.
The tramp decision annoyed the holder’s holder, and the Australian Prime Minister said they were « completely unjustified » and « are not a friendly act. »
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