South Africa has no immediate plans to retaliate against the United States over tariffs announced by President Donald Trump this week and will instead seek to negotiate exemptions and quota agreements,

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on most of the US’s trading partners will undermine a 25-year-old pact that gave many of the poorest African nations duty-free access to the world’s biggest economy. Trump’s tariffs — as high as 50% on the kingdom of Lesotho — will supersede the African Growth and Opportunity Act,

Lesotho, Madagascar, Botswana, Angola, and South Africa were the hardest hit in sub-Saharan Africa by Trump’s new “discounted reciprocal” tariff regime. Analysts said African countries would need to work together in order to mitigate the worst impacts of the dramatic reset.