[himinlomax]

10% on British Indian Ocean Territories, whose sole inhabitants are US soldiers at the Diego Garcia base.

[dathinab]

It's what you get if you let people which don't know what they are doing make decision about things they don't really understand without being open for consulting because they know better using only oversimplified statistics which often don't tell even half the story.

Or at lest it looks a lot like this, honestly from its patterns it looks a lot like the decision making done at a previous employee where someone who was expert in one field got a lot of decision power and decided they now know better in every field and dear anyone says otherwise.

[Ray20]

Isn't this just common sense? I mean, if there are no people/production/imports in a certain territory, it doesn't mean that all of this won't appear there literally tomorrow, especially when tariffs on goods from these territories are zero.

[ourmandave]

It's like they pulled a list "All Countries the US Trades With" off wikipedia and used that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

Same clowns who made blanket cuts to every Federal dept and then had to walk a bunch of them back. There's no nuance or forethought, or realization of the long term damage they're doing.

[jeltz]

Very likely that is literally what they did.

[Symbiote]

Strictly speaking it also includes some British military and contract staff from other countries (cleaning, landscaping etc, whatever they need).

[kragen]

Where is this list posted by the US Government? These countries aren't in Annex I of the Executive Order.

[wkat4242]

It has British in the name of course. Gotta tariff those leeches. /s