Author: The Eagle Online

The Director-General (D-G) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stated that Africa would be minimally impacted by the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump of the United States of America. She made the remark during an interview with Nigerian journalists at the Spring Meetings of the World Bank in Washington D.C. on Friday. Okonjo-Iweala explained that only 6.5 percent of Africa’s exports go to the US, while 4.4 percent of its imports come from the US, meaning that the impact on the continent would be minimal. She said: “The trade of the continent is very limited…

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