{"id":63606,"date":"2025-03-31T18:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63606"},"modified":"2025-03-31T18:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:56:45","slug":"sahel-states-impose-new-tax-on-ecowas-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/31\/sahel-states-impose-new-tax-on-ecowas-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel States Impose New Tax on ECOWAS Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have introduced a 0.5 percent import duty on goods from Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), countries, escalating tensions with the regional bloc.<\/p>\n<p>This move, effective Friday, signals a deeper economic shift following the trio\u2019s withdrawal from ECOWAS earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), initially a security pact, is now asserting itself as an economic bloc with plans for biometric passports and strengthened trade and military ties.<\/p>\n<p>The new tariff, exempting humanitarian aid, aims to fund AES operations but threatens regional trade stability.<\/p>\n<p>Experts warn of higher consumer prices, disrupted supply chains, and economic uncertainty across West Africa. While the tax may provide short-term revenue for the military-led governments, it risks undermining long-term economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>ECOWAS, despite the nations\u2019 formal exit, maintains diplomatic engagement until July, leaving room for possible negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>However, with this latest policy shift, the rift between the Sahel states and ECOWAS appears to be widening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have introduced a 0.5 percent import duty on goods from Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), countries, escalating tensions with the regional bloc. This move, effective Friday, signals a deeper economic shift following the trio\u2019s withdrawal from ECOWAS earlier this year. The Alliance of Sahel States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63608,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63606\/revisions\/63608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}