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The Vatican was excluded from the tariff list and Italy is at the 20% EU rate. I hope some scheming cardinal sees the opportunity here
Just seems like a strange thing to exclude given that they imposed tariffs on uninhabited islands. Assume there is some ‘based tradcath’ guy behind the exclusion.
they also sell collector's replicas in bronze and silver (which are beautiful btw), so it's unlikely lack of commerce
It's because some priests selling trinkets are no threat to the US whilst the penguins are waiting in the wings to become a super power.
Turn Vatican city into a huge warehouse with train connections and everything
italy rents its entire land area to the vatican for one euro
Reject modernity, retvrn to tradition (the Papal States)
Just needs to be Civitaveccia and Italy and the Vatican will make so much money they'll need to co-op the data centres made for AI to store the ledgers.
I run a small import export business in ~~Sicily~~ Vatican City
I buy eggs in Malta for 7 cents and I sell them in Sicily for 5 cents.
And everyone's got a share.
Real gabagool hours
Imagining the blowback if trump put “the Vatican” on his tariff charts lol. Most Americans probably think “The Vatican” is a specific church, not a country, and would probably start crowing about “attacks on religion”.
The church is about to be so rich they'll need to replace the gold leaf with iridium.
They did, church was always huge landholder (in Poland it was and even now it still is the single biggest landholder outside of state) and with the advent of capitalism they put their hands into as much as they can too, though rarily under their own front.
Real Banco Ambrosiano hours. Let's GO! 
Ayyye mama mia we coulda sella so mucha da gabagool
Creating arbitrage to own the trade deficit.