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The US defends invoices on a remote island inhabited by penguins and seals

Listen to the article Trump’s administration has defended its decision to impose invoices on the Heard and McDonald islands, a remote Australian house only on penguins and seals, in a move aimed at closing what it calls “ridiculous gaps” in world trade. US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick told CBS on Sunday that the islands were included in the list of invoices to prevent countries from exploiting non -regulated commercial routes and shipping goods in the United States. “If you let go of the list, countries that are trying to last to America to pass through these countries to us,”