The US defends the rates on a remote island of penguins and seals

The US Trade Secretary has defended the country’s decision to impose tariffs on a group of uninhabited islands inhabited only by penguins and seals.

The imposition of tariffs on the islands of Hurd and McDonald had to close the “ridiculous doors” and would prevent other countries from facing the islands to reach the US, Howard Luni told the US partner of BBC CBS.

Authorities in Australia responded with a surprise last week when they found out about the tariffs of the island, located 4,000 km (2485 miles) from Australia.

Its trade minister Don Farrell told the newspaper ABC that the imposition of tariffs is a “obvious mistake” showing a “hasty process”.

But when they asked him about the inclusion of the Australian territory in the Trump Tariff list, Lutnik said: “If you leave something out of the list, the countries that are trying to arbitration to America go through these countries.”

“The president knows this, he is tired of it, and he will correct it.”

Luny’s interview was one of several US government officials to defend the president’s new rates after the three basic US stock indexes were immersed over 5% on Friday, in Friday The oldest week for the US Exchange since 2020S