Only Job I Know: Tiny Lesothos Garment Workers Reel From Trumps 50 Tariffs
Impoverished African country is hit with highest tariff rate, overturning decades of global trade policy The day after Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs, Lesothos garment workers feared for their jobs. Last year, Lesotho sent about 20 of its 1.1bn 845m of exports to the US, most of it clothing, as well as diamonds, under a continent-wide trade agreement meant to help African countries development via tariff-free exports.
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