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Government relieved by reduction from threatened 50% to 15% <\/em><\/p>\n The Lesotho government has committed to continue with negotiations to further reduce tariffs on its exports to the US. This comes after the United States revised its crippling 50% tariff on all Lesotho exports down to 15%, effective from 7 August.<\/p>\n “While we had negotiated the revision to at least 10% which was applied to all countries, this rate [15%] will ease the burden to our exporters, particularly the textile and apparel industry,”…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Government relieved by reduction from threatened 50% to 15% The Lesotho government has committed to continue with negotiations to further reduce tariffs on its exports to the US. This comes after the United States revised its crippling 50% tariff on all Lesotho exports down to 15%, effective from 7 August. “While we had negotiated the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203963,"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\/00200582:684f4c6cc98ada9abfad8329a49b7ee4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,14488,7085,4717,1407,257,254,6723,2282],"class_list":["post-203962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aims","tag-exports","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariff","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00200582:684f4c6cc98ada9abfad8329a49b7ee4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203962","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=203962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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