{"id":326871,"date":"2025-12-04T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326871\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:32:13","slug":"trump-tariffs-likely-to-worsen-pakistans-21-year-high-jobless-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326871\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariffs likely to worsen Pakistan&#8217;s 21-year-high jobless rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/trade-war\/trump-tariffs\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump tariffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Experts predict half a million job losses on expected dip in exports to US<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20251203 Pakistan labor\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A laborer pushes a load of\u00a0bricks at a brick kiln\u00a0on the outskirts of Peshawar,\u00a0Pakistan on May 1, 2023. The country&#8217;s already high jobless rate is expected to take a further hit from U.S. tariffs. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>ADNAN AAMIR<\/p>\n<p>December 4, 2025 10:41 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">ISLAMABAD &#8212; Pakistan is facing the prospect of more job losses as U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff measures threaten to cut exports to the world&#8217;s largest economy, experts warn, as a new labor survey shows the South Asian country&#8217;s unemployment rate hitting its highest level in two decades, leaving key export sectors exposed to further layoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump tariffs Experts predict half a million job losses on expected dip in exports to US A laborer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[183492,64,63,99,164,58442,5402,183491,2178,4688,3281,55130],"class_list":["post-326871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-21-year-high","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-jobless","tag-likely","tag-pakistans","tag-rate","tag-tariffs","tag-trump","tag-worsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}