The government of Lesotho told its citizens not to panic after the U.S. announced a trade tariff that risks wiping out nearly half of its exports.

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Textile manufacturing is one of Lesotho's key industries, exporting some 75% of its output to the United States.

But the fallout from the U.S. tariffs could be severe. Lesotho’s Trade Minister Mokhethi Shelile warned of looming factory closures and job losses in the textile sector, which employs about 12,000 people. “We are deeply concerned,” he said, adding that the government would send an urgent delegation to Washington to negotiate a better deal.

Lesotho have maintained that the world's football governing body FIFA must deduct three points from South Africa for fielding an ineligible player.

US President Donald Trump in March ridiculed Lesotho as a place "nobody has ever heard of" and then this week hit the tiny African kingdom with the highest of his reciprocal trade tariffs for any single nation.

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Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in what could be a death blow to its economy.