The president of Zimbabwe has announced that his country is abolishing customs duties on goods from the US. Emerson Mnangagwa hopes that the decision will persuade the White home to abolish sanctions imposed on his state. Donald Trump charged Zimbabwean goods with duties of 18%.
In Africa, many countries have been more affected by them. Lesotho 50 percent, South Africa 30 percent as well as Madagascar and Botswana.
Customs duties imposed on Zimbabwe are comparatively low due to the fact that trade between this country and the US is low. That's $111.6 million in 2024. United States they then exported goods worth $43.8 million and paid $67.8 million for imported from Zimbabwe, mainly sugar and tobacco.
For the president Mnangagwy The suspension of duties on American products is an chance to delight president Trump. This is how the local opposition sees it, according to which Mnangagwa hopes that the administration will lift the sanctions imposed on him for corruption and human rights violations.
A tense relation with the United States. Zimbabwe's Single Politics
Zimbabwe has had a tense diplomatic relation with the US since a 4th of a century, that is, since the introduction by the ruling then Roberta Mugabe a controversial land policy that consisted of expelling white farmers from the country and transferring their farms to black people in Zimbabwe.
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In 2024 the president Joe Biden He abolished those penalties, replacing them with sanctions imposed on eleven people, including Mnangagwa, who dismissed Mugabe from power in 2017. Critic to president Hopewell Chin’ono wrote on X that Mnangagwa, who is presently president of the regional block South African improvement Community, should effort to work out a common consequence to the US alternatively of acting unilaterally.
The opposition besides responded to the president with jokes, disseminating on social media a recording on which Mnangagwa promises Trump to hand over Victoria Falls township Victoria Falls, encouraging the American leader to build a hotel and golf course there.
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