President Trump imposed new duties on twenty African countries

Wines and citruses from South Africa exported to the United States have been covered by 30 % customs, like oil and minerals from Libya and products from Algeria. President Donald Trump imposed new duties on twenty African countries that are to come into force in seven days. He set the highest rate for three countries at 30 %, and for products from the remaining 17 he accepted 15 percent.

South Africa hoped on Wednesday evening that she would avoid high customs rates and at the last moment she offered the United States another commercial proposal related to the commitment to billion investments in the USA. However, personal reluctance, often publicly articulated by Trump, to the policy pursued by the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa decided to leave the 30 % announced in April. Stawki to South African goods.

Mauritius was baked, which exports mainly cane sugar to the United States, textiles and live monkeys, macaques used in research in the USA. Not only animal defenders hoped that Trump would hold at least on macaques announced in April 40 % duty.

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Small primates, which have multiplied in Mauritius over the past decade, have become a valuable source of income for this small African island in the Indian Ocean. American laboratories pay up to 20,000 for individuals. dollars. And according to the official data of Mauritius, the country provided 60 percent. Chief of American pharmaceutical research in 2023, and in the last one sent 13,484 monkeys to the USA.

Lesotho also breathed a sigh, about which the US president admitted that he did not know much, but whose polo shirts and jeans sent to the United States planned to cover 50 %. duty. Ended with 15 % tariff, which means that probably the African kingdom will soon cancel the state of defeat introduced at the beginning of July at the news of the potential gigantic load of its products.

There are no Liberia among the twenty African countries covered by new customs rates, which since the July visit of President Joseph Boakai in Washington has become evidently privileged by the US country. The White House not only did not apply new customs loads on its products, but also removed it – probably only temporarily – from the list of countries that may soon be covered by restrictions in traveling to the USA. It happened, although the liberia has the world's largest indicator of rejected visa conclusions, reaching 80 percent, and a huge number of people who visit the USA and are already there, illegally.

There is also no other four countries on the list, whose leaders President Trump invited in July to the White House, and which promised him access to their resources, i.e. in addition to Liberia – Gabon, Guinei Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal.

From Monrovia Tadeusz Brzozowski (PAP)

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