Trump introduced customs penguins! | 24sata
According to the list published by the White House on XU, Trump’s administration will introduce a 10% customs on the goods from the Heaard Islands and McDonald – Australian territory that is closer to Antarctica than anywhere else and is completely uninhabited, writes the BBC. The most famous residents of Heard are penguins.
Fisheries are being taken place in the area, but there are no buildings or any inhabitants. Nevertheless, according to the World Bank data on exports, the United States in 2022 bound products worth $ 1.4 million from the island of Heard and McDonald, of which almost all was imported « machines and electric equipment ». It is not clear what kind of goods it is. In the previous five years, imports to Heard and McDonald has ranged from $ 15,000 to $ 325,000 a year.
Trump has introduced customs duties and some populated Australian territories. The island of Norfolk, which has a population of 2,188 people and is 1,600 km northeast of Sydney, is hit by Customs of 29% – which is 19 percentage points more than the rest of Australia. In 2023, the island of Norfolk exported goods to the United States worth $ 655,000, with the main product of a leather footwear worth $ 413,000. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday: « The island of Norfolk has a 29%customs.
The US president also announced 10 percent of Customs of 10 percent on Svalbard and Jan Mayen, two distant Norwegian territories not far from the North Pole, which together have about 2500 inhabitants. It is unclear which goods are exported to any of these territories.
