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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by Symbiote on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:38AM (#43567617)
It could be a clerical error — intending to choose Haiti or Honduras, or maybe Hong Kong, and clicking or typing HM by mistake.

Or maybe OCR is used somewhere and has made the error.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by JKCalhoun on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:32AM (#43568112)
That may be the stupidest explanation I have heard yet.

It must be the correct one then. :-)

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by Symbiote on Friday April 04, 2025 @04:38AM (#43579700)
The Guardian are reporting essentially this, it's clerical errors of some kind:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...

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