Comment by mandevil

Comment by mandevil 2 days ago

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https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1907536257476903047 first picture clearly shows "Heard and McDonald Island: Tariff charged to the USA including currency manipulation and trade barriers: 10% USA Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs: 10%" and the same for the next line below it, Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

That same picture also shows the British Indian Ocean Territory, which as of a few weeks ago is literally just the US Military base at Diego Garcia. They also are listed as charging a 10% tariff including currency manipulation and trade barriers.

They specifically called out all of these locations in the papers they handed out to journalists.

rsynnott 2 days ago

I mean I'm assuming that these junk numbers were put together at the last minute by some intern when it was realised there was no plan. I seriously doubt anyone involved has ever heard of any of these places; they just made up some numbers and moved on.