Trading duties the biggest threat to the Falkland Islands since the war

Above all, it is the Falkland Islands professional fishermen who will be affected. In 2023, the archipelago exported, which has only 3,662 inhabitants, fish and other goods for the equivalent of SEK 280 million.

« This is a scandalous aggression act that must not be allowed to be uninhabited, » says Liberal Democrats party leader Ed Davey, According to Merco Press.

He urges Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer to invite Falkland Islands Governor to a crisis meeting on Downing Street in London to discuss how to strike back and protect the archipelago’s jobs. He thinks that the UK should include the interests of the Falkland Islands in its trade negotiations with the United States.

– The British government has a responsibility to act and defend British citizens everywhere – even in the Falkland Islands, says Ed Davey.

Trump’s decision to introduce the powerful trade tariffs coincides with Argentina’s celebration of Veteransagen, as the country honors its fallen soldiers during the Falkland War, which lasted for 74 days in 1982. The ceremony was led by Argentina’s Libertarian president, Javier Milei, who repeated the island of the island.

« We want to make Argentina a great power so that the inhabitants of Las Malvinas (Falkland Islands), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands prefer to be Argentine, » the president said in his speech.

Javier Milei is a close Allied to Donald Trump and last week received a prize during Gala America’s Patriots in Trump’s home Mar-A-Lago. Many Argentinians are grateful that the Falkland Islands were punished with 41 percent commerce duties, while Argentina only received a trading rate of 10 percent.

« Thank you, mate, for giving us fewer whips than you gave the others, » wrote one of Milei’s supporters on Twitter.

There are suspicions that Trump has chosen to punish the Falkland Islands with the high customs to benefit his friend Milei who want to make the population of the archipelago more friendly to be incorporated into the Argentine Republic.