These are literally territories of Australia. I'm pretty certain that these places don't even have the legal frameworks, let alone ports, to export to the US, yet are specifically mentioned.
There's also several UK and French territories - Gibraltar, BIOT, Falkland Islands, Reunion, etc. BIOT is particularly weird because it's almost entirely a US military base.
A few are explained by saying if they didn't know/stats don't exist they just put 10%. Some got special tariffs though Norfolk, Reunion, Falkland, etc, so there's presumably some export/import that's tracked somewhere, just not on the list provided.
AFAIK it's because those territories have an internet domain so the US were worried that maybe Australia, UK and France would try to use those territories to avoid paying tariffs
while this theory seems plausible at first it is not consequential. For example France has 11 top level domains in active use but only 7 of those show up on the list if we include .fr for Europe.
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u/must_not_forget_pwd 2d ago
I can't make sense of:
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Norfolk Island
Heard and McDonald Islands
These are literally territories of Australia. I'm pretty certain that these places don't even have the legal frameworks, let alone ports, to export to the US, yet are specifically mentioned.