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Trump to Put Tariffs of over 10% on Smaller Nations, Including Those in Africa and the Caribbean
UNITED STATES, AFRICA, CARIBBEAN, JUL 15 – Tariffs over 10% will target imports from smaller African and Caribbean nations as part of efforts to reduce U.S. trade imbalances despite their modest trade volumes, officials said.
- On July 15, 2025, President Donald Trump said he plans to impose tariffs over 10% on goods from smaller African and Caribbean nations at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
- Following a 90-day negotiation period that expired July 9, Trump announced a broader effort to impose tariffs of over 10% on goods from smaller African and Caribbean countries, aiming to incentivize domestic production.
- To ease transition, Trump said he will start at a lower tariff rate and give companies a year to build domestic factories, and Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary, clarified that affected countries are generally low-volume trade partners unlikely to alter the trade-deficit goal.
- Retaliatory tariffs could be triggered, critics warned, potentially straining relationships with developing nations.
- Future tariffs on pharmaceutical imports could be announced by month's end, Trump said, while similar measures are being considered for computer chips.
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Trump Floats More Tariffs
President Trump told reporters Tuesday that he plans to place tariffs of over 10% on smaller countries, including nations in Africa and the Caribbean, the AP reports. "We'll probably set one tariff for all of them," Trump said, adding that it could be "a little over 10% tariff" on goods...
Trump to put tariffs of over 10% on smaller nations
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he plans to place tariffs of over 10% on smaller countries, including nations in Africa and the Caribbean. “We’ll probably set one tariff for all of them,” Trump said, adding that it could be “a little over 10% tariff” on goods from at least 100 nations. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick interjected that the nations with goods being taxed at these rates would be in Africa and t…
Trump announced that he plans to impose on a group of small countries a tariff that could be around 10%.
Trump plans to impose over 10% tariffs on smaller nations, targets Africa and Caribbean
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to impose new tariffs, likely to be a "little over 10 per cent," on imports from more than 100 smaller countries, including many nations in Africa and the Caribbean. Speaking to reporters, Trump said that the new tariffs would be uniformly applied across all targeted countries, saying, "We'll probably set one tariff for all of them." Trump said, "It could be a little over 10 per cent tariff on…
President Donald Trump told journalists on Tuesday that he was planning to impose tariffs of more than 10 per cent on small countries, particularly African and Caribbean countries.
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