'No known exports': Australia's Norfolk Island confirms it won't be subject to higher US tariffs

Trump's customs hammer not only hits China, the EU, Japan, and other economic powers. Other regions have also been subject to high tariffs by the US President, such as Norfolk Island.

Donald Trump puts tariffs on islands inhabited only by penguins

The tariffs are part of a new plan announced by President Donald Trump yesterday on what he dubbed "Liberation Day."

Weird Trump Tariffs: Norfolk Island with 2,000 population gets 29%, penguins on uninhabited island hit with 10%

There have been some unintended and weird outcome from Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs — from a 2,000 population island being imposed by 29% to an island inhabited by only penguins being charged 10%

‘Bit strange’: Trump’s tariffs hit island that doesn’t ‘export anything’ to US

‘They probably don’t even know where Norfolk Island is in the world,’ a resident says after the US imposed a 29 per cent levy on the Australian outpost.

‘A bit strange’: Tiny island gets massive Trump tariff despite almost no exports

Some islands targeted – like the Heard and McDonald Islands in the Antarctic – do not even have human inhabitants

The small island of Norfolk in the Pacific Ocean east of Australia has been hit with a 29 percent trade tariff. “It must be a mistake,” Richard Cottleby, who owns a concrete company, told Reuters.