Full list of African countries slapped with heavy import taxes between 10% and 50% by Trump

Africans woke up on Wednesday, April 3, 2025 to news of taxes imposed by the United States (US) government on imports to that country in accordance with a policy being rolled out by current President Donald J Trump.

Leading the chart with 50% import taxes is Lesotho, the landlocked country in Southern  the US President Donald Trump has said that “nobody has ever heard of”. Madagascar comes in with 47%, East African Country of Mauritius comes second with 40% import taxes, Botswana with 37%, Algeria  with 30%, Tunisia with 28%,  Cote D’voire with 21% Namibia 21%  and Nigeria 14%. Other African countries were slapped with 10% import taxes   described by the US President as a  “Declaration of Economic Independence” .

“This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It’s our Declaration of Economic Independence,” the president, 78, said in the Rose Garden.

“Factories will come roaring back into our country — and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base. We will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers.”

Specific reciprocal duties will take effect after midnight on April 9 — including a 20% tariff on the 27-nation European Union, 24% levies on Japan and 17% tariffs on Israel — with the rates described as roughly half of the tariff and non-tariff barriers on US goods by the countries, with which the US has trade deficits.

“We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us,” Trump said of the reciprocal tariffs.

See full list of affected countries below;