{"id":2365,"date":"2025-04-03T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/uninhabited-island-sees-increase-in-trade-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:03:44","slug":"uninhabited-island-sees-increase-in-trade-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/uninhabited-island-sees-increase-in-trade-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninhabited island sees increase in trade tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-03 14:03:43<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>An uninhabited island is facing an increase in trade tariffs.<BR><br \/>\nNorfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, has been hit with a tariff of 29 percent by the US government, and George Plant, the administrator of Norfolk Island, has admitted to being bemused by the decision.<BR><br \/>\nPlant told the Guardian newspaper: &#8220;There are no known exports from Norfolk Island to the United States and no tariffs or known non-tariff trade barriers on goods coming to Norfolk Island.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nAnthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Australia, has also admitted to being bemused by the tariff.<BR><br \/>\nThe 62-year-old politician &#8211; who has been the leader of Australia&#8217;s Labor Party since 2019 &#8211; said: &#8220;Norfolk Island has got a 29 percent tariff. I\u2019m not quite sure that Norfolk Island, with respect to it, is a trade competitor with the giant economy of the United States, but that just shows and exemplifies the fact that nowhere on Earth is safe from this.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-03 14:03:43 An uninhabited island is facing an increase in trade tariffs. Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}