Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albaneze said on Thursday: “Nowhere on Earth is it safe.”
A group of barren, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica, covered by glaciers and hosts penguins, have been seduced by Donald Trump’s trade war, as the US president hit them 10% on products.
The island of Herd and the MacDonald islands, which are an outer territory of Australia, is one of the most remote places on Earth, accessible only via a two -week trip from Perth to the west coast of Australia. It is quite uninhabited, with the last visit of people believed that it was done almost 10 years ago.
Nevertheless, the Herd and McDonald islands appeared on a list published by the White House with the “countries” on which new trade duties will be imposed.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albaneze said on Thursday: “Nowhere on Earth is it safe.”
External territories are part of Australia and are not self -governing, but have a unique relationship with the federal government. Such territories that appear on the White House list are the Keeling islands, the Christmas island and the island of Norfolk.
The island of Norfolk, which has a population of 2,188, located 1,600 kilometers northeast of Sydney, was charged with an invoice of 29% – 19 percentage points higher than the rest of Australia.
In 2023, the island of Norfolk Etouched US products worth $ 655,000 ($ 1.04 million Australia), with a major export of US $ 413,000 ($ 658,000 Australia), according to data from the Economic Complex Observatory, according to the Guardian.
However, George Plant, the administrator of the island of Norfolk, questioned the data. He told the Guardian: “The island of Plant Plant is not one of England’s most important islands:” There are no known exports from Norfolk Island to the United States and there are no duties or unknown non -tariff trade barriers to the goods coming to Norfolk. “
Albanese said on Thursday: “The Norfolk island has a 29%duty. I am not completely sure that the island of Norfolk, in terms of this, is a commercial competitor to the United States’ giant economy, but this shows and is an example of the fact that nowhere on Earth it is not safe from it. “
Evidence of exports from the Herd Islands and MacDonald islands are even more enigmatic. The soil has fishing, but no buildings or human habitation.
However, according to its export details World Bank, The US has introduced 2022 US $ 1.4 million products ($ 2.23 million Australia) from the island of Herd and the McDondald Islands, which were almost all of which imports of “machinery and electric species”. It was not immediately clear what these products were.
During the past five years, imports from Herd island and the MacDonald islands ranged from US $ 15,000 ($ 24,000 Australia) up to $ 325,000 ($ 518,000 Australia) per year.
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