US accidentally lists fictional country as trade partner

Fictional nation Wakanda removed from US free-trade list

The USDA said in a statement that staff used Wakanda as a test for its tariff tracker system. It has since been taken down.

NEW YORK - Wakanda, the fictional country from Marvel’s popular movie “Black Panther,” was temporarily listed as a free trade agreement partner of the United States in an online tariff tracker.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture called it a site-testing snafu.

"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," a USDA spokesman told FOX Business.

Wakanda was listed alongside nations including Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru, Twitter user Francis Tseng pointed out Wednesday morning.

"Wakanda is listed as a US free trade partner on the USDA website??" Tseng asked.

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The testing also included hundreds of data inputs for Wakanda's imagined agricultural products, including cows and chickens.

"Black Panther" made history less than a week after its release in February 2018, earning $242 million after a blockbuster performance on Presidents Day, according to box office estimates.