Lesotho, which Trump had ridiculed in March as a country “nobody has ever heard of”, is a poor and landlocked country with a gross domestic product of just over $2 billion.
Its exports to the United States, which in 2024 totalled $237 million, account for more than 10% of GDP, Oxford Economics said.
Trump said the “reciprocal” tariffs were a response to duties and other non-tariff barriers put on U.S. goods. Lesotho charges 99% tariffs on American goods, according to the U.S. administration.
It also compounded the pain after Trump's administration dismantled USAID, the government agency that was a major supplier of aid to the continent.
But its foreign minister told Reuters last month the country, which has one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world, was feeling the impact of the aid cuts as the health sector had been reliant on them.
The resulting tariff equals half the ratio between the two, meaning countries such as Lesotho and Madagascar, which import only small quantities of U.S. goods, have been hit with more punitive tariffs than much richer countries.
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