Norfolk Island hits back at Trump over whopping 29 per cent tariff - as the tiny territory's leader shares a message for the US President

Donald Trump made a 'mistake' erstwhile helium slapped astir 30 per cent tariffs connected Norfolk Island and the tiny Aussie outpost volition really alternatively look the aforesaid complaint arsenic the remainder of the country.

The Australian territory, which has a colonisation of astir 2,000 radical and is located 1,500km eastbound of Australia successful the Pacific Ocean, was deed with a with a 29 per cent reciprocal tariff by the US medication connected Thursday.

The determination bamboozled Prime Minister Anthony Albanese because the remainder of Australia - of which Norfolk Island is simply a portion - received the baseline tariff of 10 per cent.   

'I'm not definite that Norfolk Island, with respect to it, is simply a menace to the United States economy, and therefore, I deliberation it being singled retired is alternatively strange,' the Prime Minister said connected Thursday. 

And present the Norfolk Island Administrator, George Plant, has told Daily Mail Australia that the territory has received assurances from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade that it volition not beryllium singled out.

Mr Plant said helium and the island's inhabitants were 'shocked' astatine the 'very strange' decision.  

'We don't expect to get progressive successful commercialized disputes with the United States and the remainder of the world,' helium added. 

'We person nary exports to the USA truthful we don't cognize wherever they got their numbers from.'

The island's celebrated conifer trees were utilized by Captain Cook for masts for the British fleet aft the land was settled successful 1788.

And successful the 1800s and aboriginal 1900s, galore American whaling ships stopped connected Norfolk Island during their voyages crossed the Pacific Ocean.

But determination is nary past of commercialized betwixt the land and the US.

'Uninhabited islands similar the Heard and McDonald Islands were besides connected the database truthful we are not definite what's going connected there,' Mr Plant added. 

'The past happening to beryllium traded successful that portion of the satellite was astir apt fur seals.'

The Heard and McDonald Islands, which incorporate 2 progressive volcanoes, beryllium around 6,000km from the Australian mainland and are location to a colony of penguins, birds and seal, and nary humans. 

They received a 10 per cent tariff successful Trump's archetypal announcement.

Mr Plant said the determination to see Norfolk Island initially was 'clearly an error'.

But helium does not clasp it against the US President.

'Our main concern is welcoming tourists to our beauteous land and President Trump is invited to travel and sojourn astatine immoderate time,' helium said. 

'But it's not for sale.'