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Trump’s Widespread Tariffs Include  Uninhabited Islands

by Sandra Rhodes
April 3, 2025 at 11:05 am
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Trump’s Widespread Tariffs Include  Uninhabited Islands

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 02: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. Touting the event as “Liberation Day," Trump announced additional tariffs targeting goods imported to the U.S. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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When President Donald Trump showed a list of countries to receive tariffs from the U.S., some names were not expected.

The reason? No one lives there.

The list, released Wednesday, were countries facing “reciprocal tariffs.” Trump is accusing these countries,” of ripping off the U.S. with their own tariffs,” according to a report on Mediaite.

Once the list was released, many on X noted it included those countries with no inhabitants as well as a territory where there only U.S. military base.

Those uninhabited include Heard and McDonald Islands, an Australian territory and one of the most remote places on Earth. It was hit with a 10% “reciprocal tariff.”

The British Indian Ocean Territory was hit with a 10% reciprocal tariff. The only inhabitants there are U.S.-U.K. military personnel and contractors.

“The Heard and McDonald Islands are completely uninhabited. Population zero. I guess we’re going to tariff the seagulls?” mocked American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick said. “It kind of feels like a White House intern went through Wikipedia’s list of countries and just generated this list off of that with no further research.”

The Heard and McDonald Islands are completely uninhabited. Population zero. I guess we're going to tariff the seagulls?

It kind of feels like a White House intern went through Wikipedia's list of countries and just generated this list off of that with no further research. https://t.co/UpTgcICbg1

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 2, 2025

Pictured: the place which is, according to the Trump White House, apparently imposing 10% tariffs on the United States.

Note the total lack of any human settlements there. pic.twitter.com/5v26j8qxGd

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 2, 2025

“Can someone please tell Donald Trump that the only people in the British Indian Ocean Territory are the U.S. base at Diego Garcia?” British Conservative politician Oliver Cooper posted on X. “He’s taxing an American military base.”

Can someone please tell Donald Trump that the only people in the British Indian Ocean Territory are the U.S. base at Diego Garcia?

He’s taxing an American military base. pic.twitter.com/TxHBMzl074

— Oliver Cooper (@OliverCooper) April 2, 2025

The tariffs Trump accused the countries and territories putting on the United States were not tariffs, those on X surmised. 

Instead, these tariffs were “calculated by taking the trade deficit divided by U.S. imports – resulting in a faulty calculation,” per Mediaite.

This guy cracked the tariff formula:@orthonormalist

It’s simply the nation’s trade deficit with us divided by the nation’s exports to us.

Yes. Really.

Vietnam: Exports 136.6, Imports 13.1
Deficit = 123.5

123.5/136.6 = 90% pic.twitter.com/fDOMoQwzKt

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) April 2, 2025

Breaking News ! TARIFFS 🤷🏻‍♂️🔥
An uninhabited island near the Antarctic has been hit by 10% tariffs. The island is mainly inhabited by penguins and small sea birds!

— Eman (@Faryaadd) April 3, 2025

Alright starting petition, whoever came up with that idea is getting sent to uninhabited island.

— 💽ISAllotherm (@1s4ll0th3rm) April 3, 2025

All maga here pls answer me how “Heard and McDonald island” as an uninhabited island able to charge 10% tariff on US in the past and how would you charge back 10% to the island with only penguins living there?? Pls answer me

— Investor (@yorkvillefund) April 3, 2025

Heard and McDonald's island is uninhabited by humans. So, most of these tariffs are made-up and the only point is to extract as much money from the U.S. population as humanly possible. These people in this admin are braindead and dead beats with no idea what they're doing. LOL https://t.co/4cfHr4Pylt

— Paul (@PaulFTW87) April 3, 2025

He imposed tariffs on uninhabited island, and islands whose only population is American military.

— Rob T (@robthebrew) April 3, 2025
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Sandra Rhodes

Sandra Rhodes

IJR, Contributor Writer She was a Story Editor for Indpendent Journal Review since November 2022 and has written for IJR since February 2024. She has been in the newspaper business in various capacities since 1998.

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