{"id":71053,"date":"2025-04-14T20:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/14\/un-calls-on-trump-to-exempt-poorest-countries-from-reciprocal-tariffs"},"modified":"2025-04-14T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:50:49","slug":"un-calls-on-trump-to-exempt-poorest-countries-from-reciprocal-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71053","title":{"rendered":"UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from \u2018reciprocal\u2019 tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unctad says many countries targeted with high tariff rates are unlikely to be a threat to US<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/apr\/14\/asian-markets-rise-signs-of-trump-tariff-china-sky-wont-fall-retreat-british-steel-races-keep-furnaces-burning-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UN\u2019s trade and development arm, Unctad, is calling on Donald Trump to exempt the world\u2019s poorest and smallest countries from \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs, or risk \u201cserious economic harm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unctad.org\/system\/files\/official-document\/ditcinf2025d3.pdf\">In a report published on Monday<\/a>, Unctad identifies 28 nations the US president singled out for a higher tariff rate than the 10% baseline \u2013 despite each accounting for less than 0.1% of the US trade deficit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/14\/un-calls-on-trump-to-exempt-poorest-countries-from-reciprocal-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unctad says many countries targeted with high tariff rates are unlikely to be a threat to USBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesThe UN\u2019s trade and development arm, Unctad, is calling on Donald Trump to exempt the world\u2019s poorest and smallest countries from \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4691,"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":[401,41,6,415,437,558,727,755,82,61,3280,3279,3290,84,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-laos","category-mauritius","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-unctad","category-united-nations","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\/71053","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\/4691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71054,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71053\/revisions\/71054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}