{"id":139135,"date":"2025-04-03T19:59:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations"},"modified":"2025-05-05T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:44:22","slug":"us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations","title":{"rendered":"US president announces global tariffs, including on 51 African nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span><b>United States President Donald Trump announced plans for sweeping tariffs Wednesday, saying \u201cour country has been looted, pillaged, raped, plundered\u201d by other nations.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The aggressive rhetoric came as Trump showed a willingness to dismantle a global economic system that the United States helped to build after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fellow Americans, this is liberation day,\u201d he said as he announced duties across almost all countries, including 51 African states.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s tariffs include a baseline 10 per cent on all imports and much higher duties on some of the country\u2019s biggest trading partners.<\/p>\n<p>He claims they will give the United States protection against country\u2019s looking to do it \u201ceconomic harm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd many people were looking to do us economic harm. Maybe not so obviously, but they were doing tremendous economic harm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also claims the new duties will give the US \u201cgrowth like you haven&#8217;t seen before, and it&#8217;ll be something very special\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said ordinary American workers have \u201csuffered gravely\u201d because of the policies of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the countries Trump has imposed tariffs on are among the poorest and most vulnerable in the world, including those experiencing civil wars or severe economic crises.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of his speech in the White House\u2019s Rose Garden, Trump said he thought people were \u201cgoing to remember today\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He predicted that the public might look back on his economic policies and conclude he was right, despite many experts predicting his policies will result in a major upheaval for the US economy.<\/p>\n<p>His move reverses also decades of trade liberalisation. The announcement left markets across the world reeling amid concerns the new duties will slow growth, hit corporate earnings, and stoke global inflation.<\/p>\n<p>After his speech, Trump sat down at a small desk erected for the occasion and signed two executive orders that helped cement the new tariff policies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Kenya<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. United States President Donald Trump announced plans for sweeping tariffs Wednesday, saying \u201cour country has been looted, pillaged, raped, plundered\u201d by other nations. The aggressive rhetoric came as Trump showed a willingness to dismantle a global economic system that the United States helped to build after World War II. \u201cMy fellow Americans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":139134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2624,1293,544,14025,9135,14384],"class_list":["post-139135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-kenya","tag-tariffs","tag-trade-war","tag-world-markets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US president announces global tariffs, including on 51 African nations - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"United States President Donald Trump announced plans for sweeping tariffs Wednesday, saying \u201cour country has been loo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US president announces global tariffs, including on 51 African nations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"United States President Donald Trump announced plans for sweeping tariffs Wednesday, saying \u201cour country has been loo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-03T19:59:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-05T20:44:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/04\/sm_1743696065.673426.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"US president announces global tariffs, including on 51 African nations\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-03T19:59:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-05T20:44:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations\"},\"wordCount\":365,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2025\/04\/sm_1743696065.673426.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Donald Trump\",\"Economy\",\"Kenya\",\"tariffs\",\"Trade war\",\"World markets\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-announces-global-tariffs-including-on-51-african-nations\",\"name\":\"US president announces global tariffs, including on 51 African nations - 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