Trump’s Tariffs Target Uninhabited Islands, Economic Dead Zones, and Individual Regions of France
If you’ve ever played the online game Worldle, where players guess a country based on its silhouette, you’ll know the frustrating experience of failing to accurately identify the day’s blob that turns out to be some insignificant island territory.
Frustrated Worldle players (at least American ones) can now have their revenge on these random statelets, thanks to President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled tariff regime.
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Included in the White House’s “Liberation Day” list of countries to be hit with “reciprocal” tariffs are a host of uninhabited islands, economic dead zones, and administrative subregions with no independent trade policy of their own.
Heard and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territory, will now pay a 10 percent tariff on any exported goods the penguins there manage to export to the U.S.
So will the British Indian Ocean Territory—a U.K. overseas territory that (thanks to a mid-century ethnic cleansing) is depopulated but for military personnel and contractors at the island’s British and American bases.
The White House’s list also includes the French overseas departments and regions of French Guiana, Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Ma
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