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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by belter on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @07:58PM (#43563242)
The full list:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-cou...

10% tariffs on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands which are uninhabited, and can be reached only by sea, which from Australia takes two weeks by vessel. And also 10% on Svalbard and Jan Mayen which is also uninhabited. That will teach them not to ripoff the USA!

Oh NO tariffs on Russia or Belarus. None.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by vidarh on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:09AM (#43566443)
Both Svalbard and Jan Mayen are inhabited. Jan Mayen only by about 35 people, though. Svalbard has both Norwegian and Russian settlements, but of course entirely too small to have impact on US trade.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by magicalhippo on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:10AM (#43567896)
Svalbard imports a lot of snowmobiles though, given their population. From what I know a substantial fraction, if not most, are from Polaris so made in the US[1].

[1]: https://www.polaris.com/en-us/snowmobiles/owner-resources/he...

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by vidarh on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:46AM (#43568231)
"A lot" is rather relative here given the total population is around 2.5k people.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by magicalhippo on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:53AM (#43568306)
True but I think relative numbers are relevant in this context.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by vidarh on Friday April 04, 2025 @06:20AM (#43580264)
The relative numbers says nothing about the impact on US trade.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by magicalhippo on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:07PM (#43589909)
True, I was thinking more about how silly the tariff rates are given the relative trade imbalance.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by prawn on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:48AM (#43568260)
Those first two islands aren't even thought to have been visited by any human for many years!
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by belter on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:56AM (#43568929)
That makes the fact that they were able to rip off the USA in trade even more outrageous! :-)
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