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In December 2019, Francis Tseng, a research fellow at the Jain Family Institute, tweeted about his discovery that Wakanda -- the fictional Sub-Saharan African nation at the center of the popular 2018 Marvel film Black Panther -- was included as an option in a list of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partners on the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Tariff Tracker website: According to USA Today, the USDA stated that the nonexistent country had been added to the dataset during Tariff Tracker testing in June 2019, but its continued inclusion in live data was overlooked. 'Wakanda' has since been removed as an option in the Tariff Tracker, a USDA spokesperson said, which we have confirmed on the website itself: Tseng jokingly suggested that the U.S. would no doubt try to liberalize Wakanda's markets and flood it with cheap subsidized corn: The USDA responded with a japing tweet of their own using the hashtag #WakandaForever, promising that While we removed the Kingdom of Wakanda from our list of US free trade partners, our relationship will always be strong:
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