{"id":225009,"date":"2025-10-25T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225009\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:40:07","slug":"trump-tariffs-deliver-shock-wake-up-call-to-a-world-denim-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225009\/","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":225010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13514,84,2343,4229,1294,144,2693,1371,25503,467,305,229,24125,56,1932,54,55,7181],"class_list":["post-225009","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-imports","tag-jobs","tag-lesotho","tag-markets","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-trade-balance","tag-uk","tag-unemployment","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}