# @cgtneurope on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DH_fSvcRzeh
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/28989996-cgtneurope-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-03T17:00:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

## Caption

Who would have thought penguins and seals would feel the brunt of Donald Trump’s tariffs.⁣
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which form an external territory of Australia, has glaciers..but NO buildings and NO human inhabitants.⁣
Yet this group of barren volcanic islands near Antarctica have been slapped with a 10 percent levy on goods.⁣
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According to World Bank export data, the US imported $1.4m of products from these islands in 2022 - nearly all of which was “machinery and electrical” imports. ⁣
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Those are some penguins.⁣
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The Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese said: “Nowhere on Earth is safe.”⁣
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Washington Post’s National Security editor added: 'For far too long, the penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands in the Antarctic have ripped off American taxpayers.  That ends today.”⁣
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#trump #us #tarifs #heardisland⁣
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📷Leah Millis/Reuters and Evan Vucci/AP⁣

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