Donald Trump‘s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick clarified that a 10% baseline tax on the Heard and McDonald islands — which are literally inhabited by only penguins — was not a mistake and not an AI thing. As Lutnick appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation, host Margater Brennan asked him why those Penguin-inhabited islands, which do not export anything to the Unites States, were featured on the list. “Did you use AI to generate this?”
According to Lutnick, the plan was to” no locations should be forgotten.”
” If anything is left off the record, the nations that try to fundamentally trade America pass those countries to us.” Any nation: like we had tariffs, the president imposed them on China in 2018, right? Finally, China started trading with America through other nations. They simply constructed their country through America. The President will mend that because he is aware of this, and he is tired of it. So essentially, he said,” Look, I can’t let any part of the world be a place where China or other countries can send through them,” Lutnick said.
However, do China travel to the United States via the penguins islands? Lutnick claimed that any kind of flaws would be closed.
Are the levies going to continue? Or will there be agreements?
Lutnick told CBS that there won’t get any postponement because the taxes will undoubtedly go into effect for days and weeks. At least 50 nations have reached out to the US after Trump revealed the taxes and conversations are raging, according to White House leaders.
The time has come for that to finish, according to the report, which highlights the fact that all these nations are aware of their own actions. The issue is then that it’s not just levies. For instance, Vietnam claimed they wanted to be zero-zero. Remember that Vietnam sends us about$ 12 billion worth of goods each year, and we send them about$ 12 billion. But, it’s not the tariffs, then. It is unrelated to levies at all. If they reached zero, they may reach 200 billion along with us. We must put an end to the pull off, Lutnick said.
