Summary
The U.S. imposed a 29% tariff on Norfolk Island, nearly triple the 10% rate applied to the rest of Australia, with no explanation from the White House.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed confusion, noting Norfolk Island’s limited economic activity. The territory has a population of about 2,000 and minimal exports.
Other remote territories like Christmas Island and Heard and McDonald Islands also received tariffs, though the latter are uninhabited.
Easy.
Someone from that island hurt Trump’s feefees 3 decades ago.
I wonder if it’s anything to do with average income? https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL90004
Other remote territories like Christmas Island and Heard and McDonald Islands also received tariffs, though the latter are uninhabited.
What a weave by a certified stable genius.
He probably saw McDonald’s island is where McDonald’s is huge
I’m sorry they put tarrifs on uninhabited islands lol
Those uninhabited islands were formed specifically to rip off America!
Yet none to Russia, curious?
Trump’s mouth is Putin’s cock-holster. It’s not really all that curious.
is that nelson mandela
Nope just a Trump supporting piece of right wing shit.
Maybe I’m stupid but I can’t find an example of this.
I’ve seen him being critical. I’ve seen him asking the president to have empathy.
I seen one bit back when he was first elected where he said to give him a chance. At that point nobody really knew what he was going to do. We were all hoping he was just being a showman to get elected.
I’m not picking a fight, I’m just genuinely asking for some evidence that he supports Trump because I can’t find it.
He doesn’t from what I’ve seen (at least not openly.)
Definitely said some bigoted anti-trans shit tho.
The secret ingredient was hundreds of millions of dollars
Money can turn anyone into what they rail against
Make them broke and offer to buy the land from under them
Someone he doesn’t like personally came from Norfolk Island, I’ll lay odds.
Nope, my bet is they set it based on the name alone and aren’t even aware it’s part of Australia.
Probably went: “Norfolk Island? Sounds like somewhere we can push around, 29%”.
They’re not sending their best people.
100% this. Morons all the way down
All the way up, remember that Trump is their lackey
More likely someone he didn’t like came from Norfolk VA or Norfolk MA or Norfolk NE, or Norfolk in England or Canada, and Trump’s team (or the LLM they used to write the document) doesn’t know the difference.
People seem to cracked it.
It looks like he used ChatGPT to create this policy.
And ChatGPT basically calculated that trade deficit is other countries’ tariffs. Then he took that value divided by 2 and applied 10% floor.
Seriously?! Lol
This comment has even question that would provide such answers:
I assume he was once insulted by Eldon Foote or one of his kids.
They’re just setting the tarriff to half the ‘trade deficit’ percentage.
Where the actual trade amount is trivial, this leads to ludicrous results.
Elon for loop mastery
I’m pretty sure that the trump regime spun two gameshow wheels: one to pick a country and another to pick a tariff percentage.
I read that they just looked at popular top level domains in some AI and generated the tarrifs from them.
All crazy places so far seem to have their own tld, so I fully support that theory
bamboozle them with bullshit
Christmas Island is well known for its asylum camps… and nothing else? Stupid is really the only word.
From wikipedia:
Christmas Island’s geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of endemism among its flora and fauna, which is of interest to scientists and naturalists. … As of the 2021 Australian census, the population of Christmas Island is 1,692.
And there’s a town there called “The Settlement”?
Good pick /s
They threw a dart at a globe and that’s where it landed.
It’s obvious that he thinks the McDonald Island is where the fastfood chain gets their food. Since McDonald’s is America’s favorite and only source of food according to trump (probably) and since tariffs pay America, he’s thinking he’s going to make us rich. Everyone eats McDonald’s which obviously comes from the McDonald Island. They pay the tariffs and Americans get rich. Art of the deal.
