US tariffs take aim everywhere, including uninhabited islands

US President Donald Trump's database of countries and territories facing tariffs see immoderate of the remotest places successful the world. Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP
Source: AFP

The world's remotest corners couldn't fell from US President Donald Trump's planetary tariffs onslaught Wednesday -- adjacent the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands.

The Australian territory successful the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean was slapped with 10 percent tariffs connected each its exports, contempt the icy archipelago having zero residents -- different than galore seals, penguins and different birds.

Strings of water specks astir the globe, including Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the Comoros disconnected the seashore of Africa, were likewise subjected to 10 percent caller tariffs.

Another eye-catching inclusion successful the tariffs database was Myanmar, which is digging retired from an earthquake that near astir 3,000 radical dead, and whose exports to the United States volition present look 44 percent successful caller levies.

Britain's Falkland Islands -- colonisation 3,200 radical and astir 1 cardinal penguins -- got peculiar punishment.

The South Atlantic territory -- mostly celebrated for a 1982 warfare fought by Britain to expel an Argentinian penetration -- was walloped with tariffs of 41 percent connected exports to the United States.

The Falklands' would-be ruler Argentina lone faces 10 percent caller tariffs.

According to the Falklands Chamber of Commerce, the territory is ranked 173 successful the satellite successful presumption of planetary exports, with lone $306 cardinal of products exported successful 2019. This included $255 cardinal successful exports of mollusks and $30 cardinal of frozen fish.

Source: AFP