𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗𝗪𝗜𝗗𝗘~𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗦, 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗣𝗢𝗣𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

                             

President Trump intentionally waited until just after 4 PM Eastern Time to execute his tariffs, just after the markets had closed, delaying the effects of those tariffs on the markets by one day.

While the President has done most of his public tussling with our two evil neighbors, Canada and Mexico, he did not neglect to add tariffs to worldwide locations with few residents and no exportable economy, but even some with no residents besides penguins (Canada may have even escaped Trump tariffs for now).  We've chronicled a few of those below:

1. Tokelau

                                                                 

Some residents of Tokelau

Thanks to the wisdom and insight of President Trump, the residents of the tiny island of Tokelau will be screwing us over no more.      

Situated between New Zealand and Hawaii, Tokelau has few physical links with the wider world. There is no airport and it takes more than a day at sea to reach its southern neighbour, Samoa. Most of the 1,500 islanders live by subsistence farming. Thousands have chosen to leave, usually for New Zealand or Samoa.

Should the greedy Islanders on Tokelau ever decide to start exporting to the U.S., Trump has a 10% tariff waiting for them. 

 

2. Keeling Islands

                                        

Long Beach on Home Island in the Keeling Islands

The Keeling Islands are two atolls made up of 27 coral islands, of which only two – West Island and Home Island – are inhabited. The population of around 600 people consists mainly of Cocos Malays.

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands consist of two flat, low-lying coral atolls with an area of 14.2 square kilometres (5.5 sq mi), 26 kilometres (16 mi) of coastline, a highest elevation of 5 metres (16 ft) and thickly covered with coconut palms and other vegetation. The climate is pleasant, moderated by the southeast trade winds for about nine months of the year and with moderate rainfall. Tropical cyclones may occur in the early months of the year.

President Trump has put a stop to economic warfare by the Cocos against the United States with a 10% tariff on anything these Islanders decide to ship to our country.

3. Jan Mayen Island

                                           

Jan Mayen Island

President Trump is really getting ahead of the game as the island of Jan Mayen, given a 10% tariff by the U.S., has no permanent residents.  

The Norwegian Armed Forces and the Norwegian Meteorologican Institute do operate a weather station there with a staff of 18 in the winter and 35 in the summer.

Should anyone decide to make Jan Mayen their permanent home and start shipping goods to the United States, President Trump has a 10% tariff waiting for them.

4. Heard and McDonald Islands

                               

Proud Penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands

                            

The Heard and McDonald Islands are two volcanic islands totally uninhabited except for a sizeable population of penguins.  The island can be accessed by a two week boat ride from Western Australia. Should someone decide to move to either of these islands, possibly exporting penguin excrement to the United States, President Trump has that potential economic warfare already covered with a 10% tariff on anything exported from either Heard or McDonald Island.

4. The Falkland Islands

                                          

The Falklands, with 3,200 people and over one million penguins, has been given a 41% tariff, perhaps a bit harsher because it's a territory of Great Britain.  

The Falkland Islands do export products to the United States and other countries in the following amounts USD: molluscs ($309M), non-fillet frozen fish ($41.5M), wool ($6.32M), sheep and goat meat ($2.2M), and fish fillets ($949k), exporting mostly to Spain ($248M), Morocco ($36.6M), United States ($27.4M), Namibia ($10M), and Germany ($6.16M).