The president of the United States, Donald Trump, 10 % tariffs to the islands of Heard and McDonald, an autonomous archipelago of Australia inhabited by humans and without economic activity.
The archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, are the habitat of seals and penguins, so they were declared a natural heritage of humanity, and are mainly visited for scientific research purposes.
However, the islands of Heard and McDonald were included in the table of countries affected by the tariffs that Trump imposed on Wednesday to imports from much of the world.
According to the Australian government, the archipelago is “uninhabited with humans and is one of the less anthropogenically disturbed areas of the world.”
The Heard and McDonald Islands are not the only territory that the White House included as a country in its global tariff table.
It also imposed tariffs to Tokelau, a territory that depends on New Zealand with about 1,600 inhabitants, and the Cocos Islands, another Australian archipelago with about 600 inhabitants.
Trump with the imposition of a base global tariff of 10 %, which in some cases is superior, such as that of China or the European Union (EU), because it accuses them of having commercial barriers against US products.
