Neither has any human residents or, according to U.S. data, any trade with America last year — unless penguins have started exporting fish sticks. Still, a 10 percent tariff was slapped on them Wednesday, presumably just in case the wildlife starts getting entrepreneurial.
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Sergeant Witherwing: ... and fish!
Marshal McBeakington: yes, and fish. Give us liberty and fish, no taxation without representation!
However there is a Guardian article that mentions $1.4m of “machinery and electrical” imports from Heard Island and McDonald Islands in 2022.
I am very curious about that. Especially as the same article says no one has visited in like 10 years.
I'll be spending the whole day fielding calls from friends in Vietnam and SEA about how we've been brutalizing the United States. When our tariff rate is basically the tonnage of bombs per citizen multiplied by 10.
He is taxing aliens and Nazis!
I’m sure that’s just an oversight.