Novum Structures was implicated in claims that errors made in shipping forms led to Norfolk Island in Australia facing president Donald Trump's hefty tariffs.

The territory in the Pacific Ocean is facing a 29pc charge despite having no trading relationship with the US.

An aerial photo of Diss (Image: Mike Page)

It is located about 870 miles east of the Australian mainland and is inhabited by about 2,200 people - making it a similar size to Acle.

However, after scouring through 10 years' of documents, Novum Structures, which has its European headquarters in Diss, found no wrongdoing on its behalf.

A spokeswoman for Novum Structures said: “We’ve checked all of our shipments into the US over the last decade and found no anomalies that would suggest anything was coded as coming from Norfolk Island.

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