Comment by belter
8 days ago
The full list:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-cou...
10% tariffs on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands which are uninhabited, and can be reached only by sea, which from Australia takes two weeks by vessel. And also 10% on Svalbard and Jan Mayen which is also uninhabited. That will teach them not to ripoff the USA!
Oh NO tariffs on Russia or Belarus. None.
Both Svalbard and Jan Mayen are inhabited. Jan Mayen only by about 35 people, though. Svalbard has both Norwegian and Russian settlements, but of course entirely too small to have impact on US trade.
Svalbard imports a lot of snowmobiles though, given their population. From what I know a substantial fraction, if not most, are from Polaris so made in the US[1].
[1]: https://www.polaris.com/en-us/snowmobiles/owner-resources/he...
"A lot" is rather relative here given the total population is around 2.5k people.
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Those first two islands aren't even thought to have been visited by any human for many years!
That makes the fact that they were able to rip off the USA in trade even more outrageous! :-)