The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jr, has sought to explain the perceived impression behind United State of America’s (USA) tariff imposition on Ghana and other countries.

According to him, the directive by President Donald Trump smacks of the thinking that countries were unduly benefiting from the western country at their detriment.

“These imposition of tariffs by America appear to suggest that it is being cheated by the world, but this impression is absolutely wrong as it is America that has cheated other countries through wars, transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and neocolonialism,” he said on Pan African TV on April 12, 2025.

He argued that America had schemed to remove thought leaders like Dr Kwame Nkrumah who led a revolution to make the African continent politically-conscious.

He noted that the obvious drive to industrialise Ghana by Dr Kwame Nkrumah led to his overthrow, which was allegedly orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

He decried that if any country would think of being the one exploited, it certainly is not America, but countries like Ghana and other once-colonised states.

He stressed that the desperate attempts by America to rise to prominence through industrilisation again will not yield the expected results because the dynamics of production in the world have changed.

He added that the labour framework of the United States of America (USA) has drastically shifted from free labour of black slaves to a new generation that would not accept meagre wages for their labour.

“Even if Trump imposes 10,000 % tariffs on the world, it will not be able to bring production back to the USA. The cost of labour per the framework of America can never be as cheap as labour in China and other industrialised countries.

“For instance, if the cost of production of a Nike shoe is $1000, the same could be done in China $10,” Kwesi Pratt explained.

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