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    <title>Why Gold Can Buy Political Distance and Garments Cannot</title>
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    <description>South Africa and Lesotho share a currency and a customs union, and absorbed the same American trade shock. The difference between their outcomes is not primarily about politics. It is about what each country sells, and how much of the value of those exports survives when the buyer changes.</description>
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    <content:encoded><![CDATA[New analysis on The Geopolitical Economist

WHY GOLD CAN BUY POLITICAL DISTANCE AND GARMENTS CANNOT

South Africa rode out US tariffs; Lesotho's garment trade collapsed. The difference is what travels with an export.

South Africa and Lesotho share a currency and a customs union, and absorbed the same American trade shock. The difference between their outcomes is not primarily about politics. It is about what each country sells, and how much of the value of those exports survives when the buyer changes.

From the opening:
“In August 2025, the United States imposed a 30% reciprocal tariff on South African goods and, through a combination of new duties and shifting exemptions, significantly eroded the commercial value of the country's preferential access under the African Growth and Opportunity Act.”

By Camilo Flora Matsumbo, Researcher and economic analyst, Mozambique

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/why-gold-can-buy-political-distance-and-garments-cannot

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