{"id":38752,"date":"2025-04-14T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/un-calls-on-trump-to-exempt-poorest-countries-from-reciprocal-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:07:20","slug":"un-calls-on-trump-to-exempt-poorest-countries-from-reciprocal-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/un-calls-on-trump-to-exempt-poorest-countries-from-reciprocal-tariffs\/","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 US Business live \u2013 latest updates 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. In a report published on &#8230; <a title=\"UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from \u2018reciprocal\u2019 tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/un-calls-on-trump-to-exempt-poorest-countries-from-reciprocal-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from \u2018reciprocal\u2019 tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}