{"id":196256,"date":"2025-04-17T23:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-seeks-dialogue-with-trumps-govt-over-his-destructive-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T23:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:20:54","slug":"lesotho-seeks-dialogue-with-trumps-govt-over-his-destructive-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-seeks-dialogue-with-trumps-govt-over-his-destructive-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Seeks Dialogue With Trump&#8217;s Govt Over His Destructive Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em><em>&#8211;Minister Shelile hoping for a positive outcome while gvt looks for alternative markets<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Lesotho has exported a significant portion of its textile products and other goods, including trout, vehicle seats, and diamonds, to the US market duty-free for nearly half a century under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) since 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Enacted in 2000 and renewed in 2015 for expiration in September 2025, AGOA provided duty-free treatment to goods from eligible sub-Saharan African countries to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504160037.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>&#8211;Minister Shelile hoping for a positive outcome while gvt looks for alternative markets Lesotho has exported a significant portion of its textile products and other goods, including trout, vehicle seats, and diamonds, to the US market duty-free for nearly half a century under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) since 2001. Enacted in 2000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196257,"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\/00661232:c3c0b0ddc0bae51a33ee3c569048e229:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,17694,6688,4357,4717,1407,257,8111,254,8237,9387],"class_list":["post-196256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-destructive","tag-dialogue","tag-govt","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariffs","tag-trumps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661232:c3c0b0ddc0bae51a33ee3c569048e229:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196256","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=196256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}