{"id":70743,"date":"2025-04-03T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/03\/donald-trump-tariffs-us-administration-countries-biggest-rates-china-myanmar-mandalay"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:13:32","slug":"asian-countries-riven-by-war-and-disaster-face-some-of-steepest-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70743","title":{"rendered":"Asian countries riven by war and disaster face some of steepest Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos hit with rates over 40% as experts say the real target is China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/03\/business-news-live-updates-trump-tarrifs-asian-markets-nikkei-asx-wall-st-dow-jones-dollar-euro\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Developing nations in south-east Asia, including war-torn and earthquake-hit Myanmar, and several African nations are among the trading partners facing the highest tariffs set by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Upending decades of US trade policy and threatening to unleash a global trade war, the US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/trump-new-tariffs-liberation-day\">announced a raft of tariffs<\/a> on Wednesday that he said were designed to stop the US economy from being \u201ccheated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/03\/donald-trump-tariffs-us-administration-countries-biggest-rates-china-myanmar-mandalay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos hit with rates over 40% as experts say the real target is ChinaBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesDeveloping nations in south-east Asia, including war-torn and earthquake-hit Myanmar, and several African nations are among the trad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,41,6,361,50,437,557,3281,82,61,3280,554,3279,45,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-cambodia","category-china","category-economics","category-international-trade","category-lesotho","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tariffs","category-trump-administration","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70764,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70743\/revisions\/70764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}