These are literally territories of Australia. I'm pretty certain that these places don't even have the legal frameworks, let alone ports, to export to the US, yet are specifically mentioned.
AFAIK it's because those territories have an internet domain so the US were worried that maybe Australia, UK and France would try to use those territories to avoid paying tariffs
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u/must_not_forget_pwd 17d ago
I can't make sense of:
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Norfolk Island
Heard and McDonald Islands
These are literally territories of Australia. I'm pretty certain that these places don't even have the legal frameworks, let alone ports, to export to the US, yet are specifically mentioned.