{"id":195586,"date":"2025-04-07T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-how-the-new-u-s-tariffs-were-calculated-and-what-they-mean-for-agoa-trade-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:58:38","slug":"africa-how-the-new-u-s-tariffs-were-calculated-and-what-they-mean-for-agoa-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-how-the-new-u-s-tariffs-were-calculated-and-what-they-mean-for-agoa-trade-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: How the New U.S. Tariffs Were Calculated and What They Mean for AGOA Trade Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Cape Town \u2014 The formula used by the Trump administration to calculate the tariffs the United States is imposing on countries across the globe is being widely criticised by trade specialists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">President Donald Trump characterised them as &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; as well as generous to the countries he has targeted \u2013 claiming that duties imposed on U.S. imports from each country amount to half those levied by those nations on American exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The higher tariffs to be charged beginning April 9 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504030443.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>affect 20&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504070070.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>Cape Town \u2014 The formula used by the Trump administration to calculate the tariffs the United States is imposing on countries across the globe is being widely criticised by trade specialists. President Donald Trump characterised them as &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; as well as generous to the countries he has targeted \u2013 claiming that duties imposed on U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6245,51068,7012,1407,257,254,8237,5979,2282],"class_list":["post-195586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agoa","tag-calculated","tag-deal","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195586","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=195586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}