{"id":80497,"date":"2025-07-29T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/lesotho-factory-that-made-trump-golf-shirts-hit-hard-by-us-tariffs-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:43:57","slug":"lesotho-factory-that-made-trump-golf-shirts-hit-hard-by-us-tariffs-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/lesotho-factory-that-made-trump-golf-shirts-hit-hard-by-us-tariffs-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho factory that made Trump golf shirts hit hard by US tariffs | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A garment factory in Lesotho, which has produced Trump-branded golf shirts, may have to soon shut down following the massive <!--more--> import taxes, or tariffs, imposed by the US government earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The small, southern African kingdom was hit with &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs of 50% &#8211; a higher rate than any other country &#8211; when they were announced by US President Donald Trump in April.<\/p>\n<p>Although they have since been put on hold, Trump says they will be reimposed this Friday, 1 August, along with other countries around the world, unless a separate deal is reached.<\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty over the future of the country&#8217;s clothes industry is one reason why Lesotho declared a national &#8220;state of disaster&#8221; earlier this month in order to speed up job-creation.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC\u2019s Shingai Nyoka reports from Maseru. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Lesotho #DonaldTrump #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A garment factory in Lesotho, which has produced Trump-branded golf shirts, may have to soon shut down following the massive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}