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In Lesotho, which makes denim that goes into U.S.-branded jeans, both the private sector and the government were weighing ...
The government of Lesotho told its citizens not to panic after the U.S. announced a trade tariff that risks wiping out nearly ...
Trump hit the small African kingdom of Lesotho with his highest tariff this week at 50%, fueling urgent efforts by the ...
Lesotho has a large trade surplus with the United States, mostly made up of diamonds and textiles, including Levi's jeans.
Textile manufacturing is one of Lesotho's key industries, exporting some 75% of its output to the United States.
Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs ...
US president imposes 50% reciprocal levy on the impoverished state: the highest of his so-called 'Liberation Day' tariffs ...
Lesotho is a microcosm of the hurt being inflicted on the world by Trump’s tariff tantrum. With a minute GDP of just ...
The amount of manufactured goods exported from Africa to the United States is minuscule. But for Lesotho, the impact of a stunning 50 percent tariff is enormous. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen ...
But the fallout from the U.S. tariffs could be severe. Lesotho’s Trade Minister Mokhethi Shelile warned of looming factory closures and job losses in the textile sector, which employs about 12,000 ...
In a sunlit shack on the outskirts of Lesotho's capital Maseru, 34-year-old Lieketseng Lucia Tjatji sits under a black cloth ...