No explanation from White House why tiny Aussie island's tariffs are nearly triple the rest of Australia's

[neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

https://slrpnk.net/comment/14847360

[bobs_monkey@lemm.ee]

All the way up, remember that Trump is their lackey

[thebananaking@lemmy.world]

They're just setting the tarriff to half the 'trade deficit' percentage.

Where the actual trade amount is trivial, this leads to ludicrous results.

[thebat@lemmy.world]

Other remote territories like Christmas Island and Heard and McDonald Islands also received tariffs, though the latter are uninhabited.

What a weave by a certified stable genius.

[slartibartfast@lemm.ee]

Nope just a Trump supporting piece of right wing shit.

[joshcodes@programming.dev]

Christmas Island is well known for its asylum camps... and nothing else? Stupid is really the only word.

From wikipedia:

Christmas Island's geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of endemism among its flora and fauna, which is of interest to scientists and naturalists.
...
As of the 2021 Australian census, the population of Christmas Island is 1,692.

And there's a town there called "The Settlement"?

Good pick /s

[takeda@lemm.ee]

People seem to cracked it.

It looks like he used ChatGPT to create this policy.

And ChatGPT basically calculated that trade deficit is other countries' tariffs. Then he took that value divided by 2 and applied 10% floor.

[dellish@lemmy.world]

Trump's fucking head is uninhabited yet here he is costing us a lot, so I guess that's the same as Heard Island tarrifs, right?

[dugmeup@lemmy.world]

Elon for loop mastery

[Guest]

Because that island exports 1000 dollars worth of timber (or whatever) to America, but only imports 300 dollars worth of paint (or whatever) from America. Trumps child like brain sees that as them taking advantage of poor old America. The numbers must be equal or better for America or they are being cheated. Even though America needs more wood and the isle folk don't need any more art supplies. He's an idiot.

[ledericas@lemm.ee]

He probably saw McDonald's island is where McDonald's is huge

[frunch@lemmy.world]

Seriously?! Lol

[whatamlemmy@lemmy.world]

The secret ingredient was hundreds of millions of dollars

[madison420@lemmy.world]

He thinks the trade deficit is a debt between two countries not the difference in trade between them.

[archmageazor@lemmy.world]

Trump's child-like mind can only understand win-lose trade agreements. He can't fathom a win-win, or a lose-lose.

[skozzii@lemmy.ca]

An explanation implies some thought was put in to these tariffs, but instead it was just based on Trump's emotions that day.

[skozzii@lemmy.ca]

Yet none to Russia, curious?

[palmtreeisbesttree@lemmy.world]

Money can turn anyone into what they rail against

[theangryseal@lemmy.world]

Maybe I’m stupid but I can’t find an example of this.

I’ve seen him being critical. I’ve seen him asking the president to have empathy.

I seen one bit back when he was first elected where he said to give him a chance. At that point nobody really knew what he was going to do. We were all hoping he was just being a showman to get elected.

I’m not picking a fight, I’m just genuinely asking for some evidence that he supports Trump because I can’t find it.

[takeda@lemm.ee]

This comment has even question that would provide such answers:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1jq5cpt/no_explanation_from_white_house_why_tiny_aussie/ml4p1lk/?context=1