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US mistakenly lists Black Panther's Wakanda on trade website

Oscar Williams-Grut
·Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK
In this photo illustration a woman reads a copy of the Black Panther (T'Challa) a fictional superhero appearing in comic book published by Marvel Comics in New York May 17, 2016. Captain America and Iron Man may be the stars of Marvel's latest comic-book blockbuster, but Black Panther -- making his big-screen debut -- is most definitely the superhero of the moment. Black Panther, the warrior king of the futuristic fictional African country Wakanda, is starring in a new comic book series that is doing booming sales, and will be the first black hero to get a standalone film, in 2018. The new comic series -- written by acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates, a leading voice on race issues in America -- debuted in April, and so far 330,000 copies of the first issue alone have been sold, according to Marvel. / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY THOMAS URBAIN-"Black Panther, Marvel's African hero, in the spotlight" (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
A woman reads a copy of the Black Panther, a fictional superhero from Wakanda appearing in comic book published by Marvel Comics in New York May 17, 2016. Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

As one of the biggest economies in the world, the US has free trade agreements with huge numbers of countries across the globe — including fictitious ones apparently.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) accidentally listed the fictional Kingdom of Wakanda as a trading partner on its website.

Francis Tseng, a software developer from Brooklyn, New York, posted a picture on Twitter Wednesday showing the error. Tseng was able to select Wakanda as a trade partner in a drop down menu and see what tariffs would be applied.

Wakanda is the fictional African country from the Marvel comic book and film Black Panther. The country is one of the richest in the Marvel Universe, thanks to its rich supply of the fictional natural resource vibranium. Perhaps this is what the US were hoping to get their hands on.

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A spokesperson for the USDA told Yahoo Finance UK: “The Foreign Agricultural Service staff who maintain the Tariff Tracker have been using test files to ensure that the system is running properly.

“The Wakanda information should have been removed after testing and has now been taken down.”

Tseng, the Twitter user who first spotted the error, said on the platform after Wakanda was removed: “Guess we're in a trade war with them too.”

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