Lesotho is sending a high-level delegation of cabinet ministers, and industry and labor union leaders to the US this weekend to plead for a reduction in tariffs, which are crippling the country’s crucial textile industry.
“We want the negotiations to start at zero as a starting point because it is where we were before the new US policy,” Lihaelo Nkaota, a spokeswoman for Lesotho’s trade ministry, told Bloomberg on Saturday. “We want the tariffs to be below the 15% for the benefit of the employers and workers.”