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Viper1j

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Only in Trumpland..


Trump administration lists fictional country of Wakanda as a free trade partner

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In the movie Black Panther, the African country of Wakanda is the most technologically advanced place in the world. It is, alas, fictional, a fact that seems to have escaped the Trump administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA had been keeping tabs on the “country” using an internet tariff tracker.

Thursday the agency owned up to its faux pas, noting it had listed Wakanda as a free-trade partner while it was testing its Foreign Agricultural Service and accidentally allowed the listing to go live in the land of internet infamy.

“The Foreign Agricultural Service Staff who maintain the Tariff Tracker have been using test files to ensure that the system is running properly,” according to a spokesman.

The Trump administration has been aggressively raising tariffs and wreaking havoc amongst many of the major players in the world of global trade. And of course, more than a few of the administration’s critics couldn’t resist the irony, speculating that the imaginary country might be Trump’s next target.

As RawStory points out, Francis Tseng, a fellow at the Jain Family Institute, an applied research organization, found hundreds of instances where Wakanda was mentioned as he was researching tariffs on food, NBC News reported. Yellow potatoes, for instance, were priced at 0.23 cents per pound (or 0.5 cents per kilogram).
 

BoomerD

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Old news...

 

Homerboy

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Old news...


And I'm pretty sure it's a repost too.
To be fair, it really does seem this was an innocent mistake by the dev that created the website. Test data left behind isn't all that crazy.
 

ShookKnight

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Sounds like a flub on the developer's side... buuuutt...


I mean, this jackass isn't rooted in reality - in ANY capacity.

He got the prayer rugs idea from Sicario: Day of the Soldado;
there’s a movie called Sicario: Day of the Soldado, which was released last summer, and which included a woman being tied up with tape, smugglers driving vast vehicles, and officials finding prayer rugs in the dirt near the border.
 

BoomerD

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Sounds like a flub on the developer's side... buuuutt...


I mean, this jackass isn't rooted in reality - in ANY capacity.

He got the prayer rugs idea from Sicario: Day of the Soldado;

Are...are you implying that wasn't an accurate historical document?
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Sounds like fake news to make our beloved gawd-given King Donnie look bad.
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Greenman

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What if they were chinese made prayer rugs? The mind boggles.
 
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