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mfcorey1

(10,997 posts)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 03:56 PM Dec 2019

US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

The US Department of Agriculture listed Wakanda as a free-trade partner - despite it being a fictional country.

A USDA spokesperson said the Kingdom of Wakanda was added to the list by accident during a staff test.

The department's online tariff tracker hosted a detailed list of goods the two nations apparently traded, including ducks, donkeys and dairy cows.

In the Marvel universe, Wakanda is the fictional East African home country of superhero Black Panther.

The fictional country was removed soon from the list after US media first queried it, prompting jokes that the countries had started a trade war.

Wakanda first appeared in the Fantastic Four comic in 1966, and made a reappearance when Black Panther was adapted into an Oscar-winning film last year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559

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US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (Original Post) mfcorey1 Dec 2019 OP
Who thinks it was just a mistake @ USDA ? How + please explain lunasun Dec 2019 #1
No Freedonia from Duck Soup? LW1977 Dec 2019 #2
Trump thought the mouth breathers wouldn't know the difference. lpbk2713 Dec 2019 #3
We could gather up every Faux pas Dec 2019 #4

LW1977

(1,227 posts)
2. No Freedonia from Duck Soup?
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 04:03 PM
Dec 2019

The con is a bigger clown than Groucho, and looks like an overweight Harpo!

Faux pas

(14,580 posts)
4. We could gather up every
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 04:11 PM
Dec 2019

brain that all the rethuglican's have, shove them in a sandwich size baggie and still have room for the sandwich

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