Overview

• The US under President Trump has imposed tariffs on a wide range of countries, including small nations and uninhabited territories, such as the Heard and McDonald Islands.
• Lesotho faces a 50% tariff, one of the highest rates, affecting 20% of its exports, while La Réunion is hit with 37%, higher than France's mainland rate of 20%.
• Diego Garcia, a British territory and US military base with no indigenous population, is also included in the tariff list with a 10% rate.
• Russia is excluded from the tariff policy, with the White House citing existing sanctions that already limit trade as the reason.
• Global leaders, including Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, have criticized the tariffs as arbitrary and questioned their rationale, particularly regarding their impact on small and economically insignificant regions.