{"id":203877,"date":"2025-08-03T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-affected-as-trump-slams-fresh-15-percent-tariff-on-nations\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:37:18","slug":"nigeria-affected-as-trump-slams-fresh-15-percent-tariff-on-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-affected-as-trump-slams-fresh-15-percent-tariff-on-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Affected As Trump Slams Fresh 15 Percent Tariff On Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>United States President Donald Trump has officially imposed a 15 percent tariff on Nigeria and other African countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Other countries affected by the new tariff regime include Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Mauritius, Ghana, Malawi, Lesotho, and Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The modified reciprocal tariff rates were announced by the White House on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">This Executive Order, titled &#8220;Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates,&#8221; said: &#8220;These modifications shall be effective with respect to goods&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010396.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump has officially imposed a 15 percent tariff on Nigeria and other African countries. Other countries affected by the new tariff regime include Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Mauritius, Ghana, Malawi, Lesotho, and Madagascar. The modified reciprocal tariff rates were announced by the White House on Thursday. This Executive Order, titled &#8220;Further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203878,"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":[249],"tags":[7104,258,256,8936,4301,257,4687,393,6720,9757,254,6723,6264],"class_list":["post-203877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-affected","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fresh","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-percent","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariff","tag-trump"],"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\/203877","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}