Trump imposes 16 per cent tariff on Mozambique – AIM report

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Trump imposes 16 per cent tariff on Mozambique – AIM report

7:45 CAT | 04 Apr 2025

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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed a general 16 per cent tariff on imports from Mozambique.

All nations will be subjected to a tariff of at least ten per cent, but there will be much higher tariffs against countries that Trump wants, for whatever reason, to punish.

On the list published by Trump, among the countries hit by the highest tariffs are Cambodia (49 per cent), Laos (48 per cent),Vietnam (46 per cent), Sri Lanka (44 per cent), Myanmar (44 per cent), Syria (41 per cent), Iraq (39 per cent), Guyana (38 per cent), Bangladesh (37 per cent), Thailand (36 per cent), Bosnia (35 per cent), China (34 per cent), Switzerland (31 per cent).

But the highest tariff of all, 50 per cent, is reserved for the small, landlocked nation of Lesotho.

READ: Here are Trump’s reciprocal tariffs by country, Mozambique included

The tariffs Trump has imposed on other members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are as follows: Madagascar (47 per cent), Mauritius (40 per cent), Botswana (37 per cent), Angola (32 per cent), South Africa (30 per cent), Namibia (21 per cent), Zimbabwe (18 per cent), Zambia (17 per cent), Malawi (17 per cent), Mozambique (16 per cent), and Democratic Republic of Congo (11 per cent). Three other SADC members (Tanzania, Eswatini, and Comoros) are charged the baseline 10 per cent tariff. Inexplicably, one SADC member, Seychelles, is not on the list.

Trump made no attempt to explain the different level of tariffs – why, for example, should Lesotho pay tariffs that are five times more than Tanzania?

By Paul Fauvet