alt Hacker NewsBizarre, tax/tariff evasion or "Mistake" does seem like the most likely explanation - yet US$1.4m is too little to bother evading tax on really. I mean that could be a refit on a boat or something -- $1.4Mn is literally nothing.
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chris_wot • 04/03/2025
Pity the Faulkland Islands, population 3,200 and about a million penguins. They have a 42% tariff.
Are you feeling great again, Americans?
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piokoch • 04/03/2025
Now it is 1.4 mln, in future this could be 1000 more, if this will help with overcoming tariffs. Check what happened with Germany export to Kazakhstan in 2022.
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The Guardian has investigated further: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...
In the case of Norfolk Island, it was apparently some mislabeled shipments from Timberland (based in New Hampshire, NH <-> NI) and from two companies based in Norfolk, UK.
For Heard & McDonald Islands, it was mislabeled machinery that actually originated in Austria and Germany.