{"id":103613,"date":"2025-10-25T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103613\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:50:07","slug":"trump-tariffs-deliver-shock-wake-up-call-to-a-world-denim-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103613\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Tariffs Deliver Shock \u2018Wake-Up Call\u2019 to a World Denim Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">One of the world\u2019s poorest countries is reeling from the impact of US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff regime, which has crippled its key textile industry and exacerbated already high unemployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">That\u2019s how the historic pivot in US trade policy is unfolding in Lesotho, the landlocked, southern African mountain kingdom whose denim manufacturing has been a rare economic bright spot. Trump initially put 50% levies on imports from Lesotho, the highest in the world. Despite a cut to 15% in August, those duties still outstrip those on competitors like Kenya, and some factories have eliminated jobs as orders dried up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the world\u2019s poorest countries is reeling from the impact of US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff regime,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[460,72,11507,4990,113,7319,61,8868,60,150,63949,123,3667,1650,55349,2237,3056],"class_list":["post-103613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-business","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-ie","tag-imports","tag-ireland","tag-jobs","tag-lesotho","tag-markets","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-trade-balance","tag-unemployment","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}