Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has officially imposed a new 15% import tariff on Nigeria and several other African countries, including Ghana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Uganda.
Others are Mozambique, Mauritius, Malawi, Lesotho, and Madagascar.
This development was announced via an Executive Order issued by the White House on Thursday, July 31, titled, “Further modifying the reciprocal tariff rates”.
According to the order: “These modifications shall be effective with respect to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m.”
The Executive Order also included varied tariff rates for other countries.
South Africa, Libya, and Tunisia were each hit with higher rates—30% for South Africa and Libya, and 25% for Tunisia.
Other non-African nations affected by the revised tariffs include the United Kingdom (10%), India (25%), and Japan (15%).
Persecondnews reports that this action follows an earlier Executive Order issued on April 2, 2025, in which the U.S. announced plans to implement new import tariffs on a range of countries worldwide, including Nigeria.
Countries affected by Trump’s new tariffs include Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, and Brazil.
Also affected by the tariffs are Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ecuador.
Equally in the list are Equatorial Guinea, the European Union (for goods with a Column 1 duty rate above 15%), Malaysia, Mauritius, Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nicaragua, and Nigeria.
Countries like North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, and Sri Lanka are also included in the list.
Leave a comment