Comment by MetaWhirledPeas
15 days ago
You jest, but I wonder if this is to stop shenanigans like claiming your business operates from there just to dodge tariffs.
15 days ago
You jest, but I wonder if this is to stop shenanigans like claiming your business operates from there just to dodge tariffs.
Nah, they just went down the Wikipedia list of places that trade with the US. This is how Réunion winds up on there, despite being actually part of France.
Oh I was assuming they just asked an LLM but this sounds plausible too.
Whichever took less work, they did that.
That might be the case with places like the UK which has a trade deficit with the US but still gets taxed at 10%. I feel however the penguins put up an obvious non tariff barrier by only accepting fish rather than hard currency.
Norfolk Island is part of Australia. Logically it would be swept up in the 10% tariff on Australia. It has no exports to the US, that being the US government's justification for tariffs over 10%, let alone an individual 29% tariff.
A comparison would be another country putting a 10% tariff on the US, but singling out Rhode Island for its own 29% tariff.