The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) removed the fictional country of Wakanda from an online list of nations that have free trade agreements with the United States, Report informs citing the RIA Novosti.
According to the publication, Francis Tseng, a fellow at the Jain Family Institute, first noticed Wakanda listed as a trade partner Wednesday morning when researching how trade deal tariffs affect food distribution and hunger in those countries.
“I definitely did a double take,” he said. “I Googled Wakanda to make sure it was actually fiction, and I wasn’t misremembering. I mean, I couldn’t believe it.”
As explained in the American Ministry of Agriculture, experts included Wakanda in the list of trade partners of the US to test the service on the website of the Department.