Trump’s 41% tariff on Falklands, “biggest threat since Argentine invasion”, Liberal Democrat leader

Monday, April 7th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

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The leader of UK’s Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey has called on the Prime Minister to meet with the Falklands Governor, after President Trump announced tariffs of 41% on exports from the Falkland Islands to the United States. Read full article

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portman
falklands are in a strong position to weather the storm. falklands GD in 2022 was £278m = £76k per capita based on civil population of 3,662 at 2021 census. similar to the usa of £73k and much more than uk per capita income of £37k!
Apr 07th, 2025 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Veteran
Forgive him, he does get excited and is prone to irrational outbursts.
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Esteban Domingo Fernandez
@Vet, dont all politicians whatever colour, and even more so 1 or 2 UK national newspapers, nothing to worry about what so ever,
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Islander1
I think Trump has his geographical and political facts wrong- Toothfish is caught off South Georgia - a seperate Govt and Administration to the Falklands and it is the South Georgia Govt who sells and has the income from the Toothfish Licences in their CCAMLAR area of control.
The Falklands link is just that the fish has to be landed on the docks here and check weighed as it is loaded into reefer containers to wherever the market is.
Apr 07th, 2025 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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KikeUshuaia
@ Islander1: indeed, as Trump is even putting Tarrifs on uninhabited Islands (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands) guess he just got his geography wrong. Shows what kind of sloppy office he runs
Apr 07th, 2025 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Jack Jones
Kike, Trumpty Dumpty probably thought that the Penguins from the heard-mcdonald islands exported chocolate Penguin biscuits to the USA,
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Monkeymagic
Ed Davey is nearly as dim as some of the Malvinistas
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