{"id":195716,"date":"2025-04-09T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-government-concerned-over-us-tariff-hike-warns-of-agoa-impact\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:59:43","slug":"namibia-government-concerned-over-us-tariff-hike-warns-of-agoa-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-government-concerned-over-us-tariff-hike-warns-of-agoa-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Government Concerned Over US Tariff Hike, Warns of AGOA Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The government has expressed its concern regarding the recent decision by the United States government to impose reciprocal tariffs on several African countries, including a 21% tariff on Namibian goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a statement issued last week on Friday, Amb. Penda Naanda, Executive Director of the Ministry of International Relations and Trade, highlighted the potential negative consequences of this move on Namibia&#8217;s trade relationship with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;The Government has taken note of the US Government&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504080234.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has expressed its concern regarding the recent decision by the United States government to impose reciprocal tariffs on several African countries, including a 21% tariff on Namibian goods. In a statement issued last week on Friday, Amb. Penda Naanda, Executive Director of the Ministry of International Relations and Trade, highlighted the potential negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195717,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,6245,10495,6427,10730,5064,4706,724,257,254,6723,6853],"class_list":["post-195716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agoa","tag-concerned","tag-government","tag-hike","tag-impact","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariff","tag-warns"],"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\/195716","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=195716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}