2025-09-09 06:33
publication
2025-09-09 06:33
From Monday, the ordinance of US President Donald Trump from last Friday, according to which the import of gold, tungsten, uranium, graphite and other key minerals is not subject to customs charges imposed by the White House in April. African countries are the main producers of these raw materials.
The US administration justified this decision with the need to secure supplies recognized as necessary for the economic security of the United States.
Africa is one of the leading global gold suppliers after China. His largest producer on the continent and the sixth in the world is Ghanawhere the extraction of the ore exceeded 130 tons in 2024, and the export reached $ 11.64 billion. Littlethe second largest gold producer in Africa, recorded in 2024 extraction of 67.7 tons. Careful producers are also South Africa, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Namibia is also the most important in Africa and one of the global tycoons in the extraction of uranium, necessary in nuclear energy. In 2022, the production of uranium ore in Namibia was a total of 5613 tons. In the same year, Niger extracted 2020 tons of uranium. Also released from tarfram duties, used for the production of smartphones and car batteries, is extracted in Africa primarily in Rwanda.
According to the Benchmarkmineals Madagascar, Mozambique and Tanzania portal, they will be responsible for almost half (47 percent) of the global natural graphite production necessary in the production of, among others, lithium-ion batteries, also relief treated by the US President.
Not all African countries, whose budgets largely depend on the sale of minerals and raw materials, will equally benefit from the decision of the American administration. Copper remains high, reaching a 50 percent tariff, which is extracted mainly in the so -called copper belt, on the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Maintaining a high duty is not only painful for the economies of these countries, but also incomprehensible due to large -scale US investments in the so -called Lobito corridor, which is to facilitate the transport and export of copper and other minerals from the depths of the continent.
According to the British ODI Global report published in August, low and medium income countries risk a loss of $ 89 billion per year due to a decrease in exports to the United States. Think Tank has placed six African countries in the top ten countries most exposed to the Higher US and the cuts of official development assistance; These are: Burundi, Mozambique, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and the islands of Saint Tomasz and Prince.
From Monrovia Tadeusz Brzozowski (PAP)
tebe/ piu/
