{"id":195367,"date":"2025-04-04T10:53:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-hit-with-highest-tariff-in-the-world-by-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:53:39","slug":"lesotho-hit-with-highest-tariff-in-the-world-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-hit-with-highest-tariff-in-the-world-by-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Hit With Highest Tariff in the World By Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on imports from Lesotho&#8211;the highest for any sovereign nation<\/li>\n<li>The southern African kingdom becomes one of the biggest targets in the administration&#8217;s push to offset trade imbalances with over 180 countries<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho exported $264 million more to the U.S. than it imported in 2022, mainly in diamonds and apparel, according to data from the Tralac Trade Law Centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on imports from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040089.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on imports from Lesotho&#8211;the highest for any sovereign nation The southern African kingdom becomes one of the biggest targets in the administration&#8217;s push to offset trade imbalances with over 180 countries Lesotho exported $264 million more to the U.S. than it imported in 2022, mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195368,"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\/00661886:cbdcdc4396a3a5c682af9b6017fceb9e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,8425,8032,4717,1407,257,254,6723,6264,5093],"class_list":["post-195367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-highest","tag-hit","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariff","tag-trump","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661886:cbdcdc4396a3a5c682af9b6017fceb9e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195367","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}