Seoul, South Korea
Cnn
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The radical prices announced by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday targets not only economic superpowers, but also financial will. In fact, a list of the White House notes certain territories without economy, and without people, at all.
This is the exact case of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory in the south of the Indian Ocean, which was affected by a tariff of 10%.
The CIA World Factbook describes the uninhabited islands, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, as “80% covered with ice” and “dark” in the case of Heard Island and McDonald Islands as “small” and “rocky”.
Economic activity essentially finished in 1877, when the trade in elephant seal oil was finished and the human population of seals has left the remote islands, which are located on the road from Madagascar to Antarctica.
Another Australian territory targeted by prices is the Cocos Islands. With a population of 600 people, the territory sends 32% of its exports – of ships – in the United States, according to CIA Factbook. They now face a 10%price.
On the other side of the planet, the small Norwegian island and the old Jan Mayen whale hunting station face 10%prices. But no one lives there permanently (a few soldiers are running), and he has an economy of zero, according to the CIA Factbook, which calls him an “sorry and mountainous” island.
There are other places on the list of Trump prices which are not huge economic powers either, to say it slightly.
Tokelau is an auto-administering territory of New Zealand made up of three atolls in the South Pacific Ocean with a population of around 1,600 inhabitants, according to the CIA Factbook. It has a saving of around $ 8 million and exports of around $ 100,000, according to the CIA. Now it also faces 10%prices.
Saint Peter and Miquelon, a French territory of eight small islands, are an enclave particularly affected by the prices of Trump, a French territory of eight small islands near the Canadian province of Newfoundland. With a population of around 5,000 inhabitants, its “only vestige remaining North American possessions in France”, according to the CIA Factbook. Its exports – “transformed crustaceans, crustaceans”, according to the CIA – are now subject to a huge American rate of 50%, much more than France (20%) within the framework of the European Union.
The only place to cope with rates as high as Saint Peter and Miquelon is Lesotho, a country of 2.2 million people surrounded by South Africa. It actually sends 20% of its $ 900 million in annual exports – “diamonds, clothing, wool, electrical equipment, bedding,” said CIA – in the United States. These will now face 50% prices.
In some respects, the Trump administration reaches places of great importance for Washington and US national security.
The British Indian Ocean territory faces a 10%rate. It is only populated about 3,000 British and American soldiers and entrepreneurs at the Diego Garcia air base. The CIA Factbook lists its main export as a fish, but we do not know who makes fishing (or who buys it).
The Marshall Islands, a group of 34 atolls and islands of the North Pacific, houses 82,000 people and a key American military installation, the US military garrison Kwajalein, which helps tests and followed by ballistic missiles.
Washington is responsible for the defense of the Marshall Islands under a free association pact. The CIA says it has exports of around $ 130 million a year, although the United States is not listed as a higher destination. These are now facing 10% prices if you come to the United States.