Why Trump taxed penguins: answer from the US Secretary of Commerce
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US President Trump has imposed tariffs on imports from more than 180 countries, including the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, where only penguins live. The US fears circumvention of tariffs through other countries.
After US President Donald Trump announced a sharp increase in tariffs on imports to the United States from more than 180 countries and territories, one territory became the object of memes and important phrases. CNN writes about this, UNN reports.
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Heard and McDonald Islands are an Australian territory near Antarctica and have no human population, only penguins live there. However, these territories were also subject to the new import duties. US Trade Minister Howard Lutnick tried to clarify the situation.
If you exclude something from the list, countries that are trying to arbitrate the US will go through these countries to us
He cited China, against which the US imposed duties several years ago.
The President introduced duties for China, right, in 2018. And then what China started doing is that they started going through other countries to America
At the same time, he denied the claim that the Trump administration could have used artificial intelligence to create a list of countries that would face tariffs. Lutnick noted that many countries were not included in the list.
Recall
US President Donald Trump has imposed a new duty on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, located in the southern Indian Ocean. The rate is 10%. Despite the absence of a human population on the islands, they are home to numerous penguin populations, which is of some interest to ecologists and conservationists.
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