{"id":36808,"date":"2025-04-04T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/04\/04\/trump-slaps-tariffs-on-africa-50-on-lesotho-30-on-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:01:53","slug":"trump-slaps-tariffs-on-africa-50-on-lesotho-30-on-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/04\/04\/trump-slaps-tariffs-on-africa-50-on-lesotho-30-on-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slaps tariffs on Africa: 50% on Lesotho, 30% on South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>US President Donald Trump has called tariffs the \u00ab\u00a0most beautiful word\u00a0\u00bb in the dictionary. Some African countries might disagree. Lesotho was slapped with the White House&rsquo;s highest tariff rates in a list released on Wednesday, with a whopping 50 percent import tax. Other countries hit include Madagascar with 47\u00a0percent and South Africa with 30 percent. South Africa&rsquo;s trade minister says it&rsquo;s now actively working on new opportunities.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has called tariffs the \u00ab\u00a0most beautiful word\u00a0\u00bb in the dictionary. Some African countries might disagree. Lesotho was slapped with the White House&rsquo;s highest tariff rates in a list released on Wednesday, with a whopping 50 percent import tax. Other countries hit include Madagascar with 47\u00a0percent and South Africa with 30 percent. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-36808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}