U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff blitz may do what years of diplomacy haven’t; push African nations to double down on their stalled free trade pact.
On April 2, Donald Trump’s retaliatory tariffs sent shockwaves throughout the global economy. The U.S. president had, on what he called “Liberation Day,” imposed sweeping retaliatory tariffs on trading partners, igniting a global trade war.
Among the hardest-hit were African nations. Trump slapped a baseline 10 percent tariff on all imports into the U.S., with some African countries, like
