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President Trump announced far-reaching tariffs on most of the United States’ trading partners. So far-reaching, in fact, that they include a remote Antarctic island group inhabited mainly by penguins — and a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean known for its polar bears. wapo.st/4lfaitV

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The Australian territory of Heard Island in the Southern Ocean is unoccupied by humans and had zero trade with the United States last year, according to the latest available U.S. figures. That makes the 10 percent tariff imposed Wednesday moot.

wapo.stTrump’s tariffs hit even remote islands. One is mainly home to penguins.Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an Antarctic territory of Australia, is on the list of reciprocal tariffs — as is a remote isle near Greenland.

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