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US defends tariffs on remote island of penguins and seals (www.bbc.com)

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 31 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

tl;dr: They're claiming that it was to "prevent countries with tariffs from shipping through there to avoid tariffs."

The United States alleged the islands exported more goods to the United States than they imported, an allegation that appeared to be calculated from incorrect trade data. An analysis of U.S. import data and shipping records by The Guardian indicated some shipments were incorrectly labeled as coming from the remote islands instead of their correct countries of origin. According to export data from the World Bank, the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m) of products from Heard Island and McDonald Islands in 2022, nearly all of which was "machinery and electrical" imports.[39]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Great, now they simply have to claim their shipments came from Russia and they'll be exempt.

Hope you know Russian!

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

While funny, they are currently sanctioned, so Tariffs don't really apply yet. When donny removes those sanctions though? How much you want to bet they conveniently forget to update their tariff list to include Russia?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

LOL, $1.4 large. My Lowe's cranks that much out in a week or two. Imagine how insignificant a single big-box store is in the grand scheme of the American economy. If that store fell into a literal black hole it would barely disrupt the local economy in this little town.

But by god we're going to stop this tariff avoidance!