{"id":45826,"date":"2025-04-05T00:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=45826"},"modified":"2025-04-05T00:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:55:31","slug":"how-tiny-lesotho-ended-up-with-the-highest-us-tariffs-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/how-tiny-lesotho-ended-up-with-the-highest-us-tariffs-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tiny Lesotho Ended up with the Highest US Tariffs in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever bought a pair of jeans from an American brand like Levi\u2019s or Wrangler, chances are they were manufactured at a factory in the small southern African nation of Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>Textile manufacturing is one of Lesotho&#8217;s key industries, exporting some 75% of its output to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>This is expected to change after US President Donald Trump slapped a 50% tariff on imports from Lesotho, the highest among all countries. According to Trump, Lesotho charges a 99% tariff on US goods, but the government said it doesn&#8217;t know how the US administration calculated that figure. Government officials did not say Thursday what Lesotho&#8217;s tariffs on US goods are.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what the high tariffs mean for Lesotho:<\/p>\n<p>A country \u2018nobody has ever heard of\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Trump made fun of Lesotho in a speech in March, calling it a nation that \u201cnobody has ever heard of.\u201d Lesotho&#8217;s foreign minister reminded him that the US has a diplomatic mission there.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the landlocked kingdom bordered on all sides by South Africa with a population of 2.3 million people, celebrated 200 years of the founding of the Basotho nation and 58 years of independence from British rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever bought a pair of jeans from an American brand like Levi\u2019s or Wrangler, chances are they were manufactured at a factory in the small southern African nation of Lesotho. Textile manufacturing is one of Lesotho&#8217;s key industries, exporting some 75% of its output to the United States. This is expected to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45827,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826\/revisions\/45827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}