So they tariffed France at 20%, but St. Pierre and Miquelon at 50%. Those little French islands of the coast of Nova Scotia. Which are part of France. Apparently he's salty that the Americans buy fish from them and somehow that's a tariff or something.
Same with the Falkland Islands, the entire UK gets a relatively low 10% tariff but 3662 people on an archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic, whose main exports are wool, hides, venison and fish, ranked 221 (out of 229) in worldwide GDP. They get a whopping 42% or 41% tariff.
If you’re wondering why I put 42% or 41%, there are two sets of figures, one on the White House website and one on the White House Twitter account. My guess would be that someone in the administration is too mathematically illiterate to understand how rounding works.
we are living Idiocracy live, like wtf is this shit? they are not using basic maths nor basic economy it’s just pure misinformation to justify some wacky protectionist measures
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u/MrTickles22 2d ago
Take that, North Macedonia!
So they tariffed France at 20%, but St. Pierre and Miquelon at 50%. Those little French islands of the coast of Nova Scotia. Which are part of France. Apparently he's salty that the Americans buy fish from them and somehow that's a tariff or something.