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Wakanda free trade forever? Fictional nation removed from trade list
[ARYNEWS.TV] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it removed the fictional country of Wakanda from an online list of nations that have free trade agreements with the United States on Thursday.
Impeachment yesterday, Wakanda today?
The Kingdom of Wakanda is the home of Black Panther, the Marvel superhero, and is portrayed in comic books and the 2018 blockbuster movie as an isolated African nation with the most powerful technology on the planet.
Typical African nation, in fact.
"While we removed the Kingdom of Wakanda from our list of US free trade partners, our relationship will always be strong #WakandaForever," the USDA tweeted from its official account.
My mind just boggled.
The agency did not immediately respond to questions.
"Are you people crazy or just stoopid?"
"Ummm..."
A front man told The Washington Post that inclusion of the mythical African nation from the universe of Marvel superheroes was a mistake made as part of a test officials were running.
"Yeah! Yeah, dat's it. It wuz some kinda test. You caught it, so dat means youse passed!"
Francis Tseng, a New York-based software engineer who was looking for data on U.S. agricultural tariffs for a fellowship he is pursuing, first noticed the reference to Wakanda on the U.S. tariff list and called it out on Twitter.
If he was pursuing a fellowship from USDA, he just lost it.




Posted by: Fred 2019-12-20
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