{"id":203749,"date":"2025-08-01T21:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/africa-trump-administration-dials-back-on-trade-tariffs-but-30-import-charges-loom-for-some\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:17:50","slug":"africa-trump-administration-dials-back-on-trade-tariffs-but-30-import-charges-loom-for-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/africa-trump-administration-dials-back-on-trade-tariffs-but-30-import-charges-loom-for-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Trump Administration Dials Back on Trade Tariffs, But 30% Import Charges Loom for Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Cape Town \u2014 The U.S. administration eased its proposed tariffs on trade with several African countries, but charges of up to 30% will kick in on imports from four countries in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The biggest beneficiary of the Trump administration&#8217;s rethink of its policy since its <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504030443.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial announcement of new tariffs<\/a> in April is Lesotho, on which it proposed the highest tariff in the world, of 50%. This has been cut to 15% &#8211; the level now imposed on most African nations affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">But there is no&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2014 The U.S. administration eased its proposed tariffs on trade with several African countries, but charges of up to 30% will kick in on imports from four countries in the coming days. The biggest beneficiary of the Trump administration&#8217;s rethink of its policy since its initial announcement of new tariffs in April is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203750,"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\/00661929:1dece4e96c6405988267dd3c4e6959a4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[7115,258,256,7578,52006,10453,892,18465,257,254,8237,5979,6264],"class_list":["post-203749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-administration","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charges","tag-dials","tag-import","tag-libya-news","tag-loom","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661929:1dece4e96c6405988267dd3c4e6959a4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203749","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}