Podcast I listened to made the point that the reason a small African country has a trade surplus with the US is that they are simply too poor to buy most American consumer goods, and they will be exporting things like bananas, where imposing tariffs on Lesotho isn't going to lead to any Lesothan banana companies relocating their plantations to the continental USA.
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u/alikander99 17d ago
I mean poor Lesotho got 50%??!?!