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The country that President Donald Trump declared \u201cnobody\u2019s ever heard of\u201d during his 4 March address to Congress has been hit with the highest U.S. tariffs in the world. Lesotho<\/strong> tops the list of 20 African nations upon which the White House has announced what it calls \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs, which add to the baseline imposed on every country.<\/p>\n The executive order Trump signed yesterday lists<\/a> levies applied to African nations, showing the worst-affected, after Lesotho\u2019s 50 percent, are…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The country that President Donald Trump declared \u201cnobody\u2019s ever heard of\u201d during his 4 March address to Congress has been hit with the highest U.S. tariffs in the world. Lesotho tops the list of 20 African nations upon which the White House has announced what it calls \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs, which add to the baseline imposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661194:97734c649a13fec2ecb47bf685835f47:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,4380,6183,6555,6507,6184,8032,10381,1218,257,9589,254,30238,6264,17413],"class_list":["post-195296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-countries","tag-high","tag-hit","tag-including","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-poorest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tarrifs","tag-trump","tag-twenty"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661194:97734c649a13fec2ecb47bf685835f47:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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