If anyone needed any more evidence that they don't know what they're doing, what I find interesting is that the various French overseas territories that are part of the EU are tariffed at different rates than the rest of the EU (treating those as separate countries is traditional for any US company, which is sometimes a headache when you want to order something).

Réunion is at 37%, which isn't a problem because any company in Reunion could just use an address on mainland France, but there's more: Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana are tariffed at 10%.

Does that make an easy loophole for any EU company wishing to export things to the US at a 10% tariff?

If these published rates actually going to be enforced this way, it seems like the whole EU has a very easy way to use the 10% rate.

That might explain this then:

> Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-antarctic-islands-...

This is cosmic-level hilarious.

LLMs are basically just good at sourcing ideas from the internet. Me thinks this just means that this tariff idea exists on the internet, especially since grok, chatgpt, etc all come up with the same idea. We used to not have income taxes and funded the govt with tariffs so this probably isn't a new concept despite media outlets pretending like it is.

Jesus Christ.