{"id":200052,"date":"2025-06-13T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mass-lay-offs-at-lesotho-garment-factories-as-u-s-tariffs-bite\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:53:52","slug":"lesotho-mass-lay-offs-at-lesotho-garment-factories-as-u-s-tariffs-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mass-lay-offs-at-lesotho-garment-factories-as-u-s-tariffs-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Mass Lay-Offs At Lesotho Garment Factories As U.S. Tariffs Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em> After the Trump administration&#8217;s threat of 50% import duty on Lesotho, orders have dried up and production lines have shut down <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New orders have plummeted at garment factories after the threat of a 50% US tariff on Lesotho and production lines have shut down.<\/li>\n<li>Thousands of workers have been sent home, with factory closures expected to last at least three months.<\/li>\n<li>Government has yet to offer concrete support, while unions warn as many as 20,000 jobs may be at risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">On 2 April, Jane*, a worker at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506130101.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>After the Trump administration&#8217;s threat of 50% import duty on Lesotho, orders have dried up and production lines have shut down New orders have plummeted at garment factories after the threat of a 50% US tariff on Lesotho and production lines have shut down. Thousands of workers have been sent home, with factory closures expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200053,"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\/00661997:4e2823f8ccce3c0bedc408b4211463c0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,21056,13640,19717,21085,4717,1407,7883,257,254,8237,2282],"class_list":["post-200052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bite","tag-factories","tag-garment","tag-layoffs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariffs","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661997:4e2823f8ccce3c0bedc408b4211463c0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200052","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=200052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}