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Zimbabwe’s main trading partners are the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, and China. Its limited exports to the US were mainly tobacco and sugar. Harare-based political analyst, Tendai Mbanje, told the AFP news agency that the move would only benefit the United States.
Zimbabwe’s President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, announced that he would suspend all tariffs on goods imported from the United States, following the imposition of an 18 percent duty on Zimbabwean exports to the US by President Donald Trump.
Mnangagwa described the measure as an attempt to build a “mutually beneficial and positive relationship” with the Trump administration. The US government data showed that trade between the two countries was USD 111.6 million in 2024.
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Zimbabwe’s main trading partners are the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, and China. Its limited exports to the US were mainly tobacco and sugar. Harare-based political analyst, Tendai Mbanje, told the AFP news agency that the move would only benefit the United States.