Trump imposes a hefty 50% reciprocal tariff on Lesotho

U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed a hefty 50% reciprocal tariff on Lesotho, a small, landlocked kingdom in southern Africa.

This makes Lesotho the country facing the highest tariff among all those on Trump’s long list of trade targets.

Despite being dismissed by Trump in March as a nation “nobody has ever heard of,” Lesotho, with a gross domestic product of just over $2 billion, has a significant trade relationship with the…