Fiji's Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, says his government was not ready for Donald Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" unveiled at ...

MOST Pacific island countries got off relatively lightly with last week’s Trump “reciprocal” tariff announcement. Ten were ...

The 22 per cent tariffs on Vanuatu are expected to impact exports and hurt kava farmers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

The nodes are in 11 Pacific Island countries, about two-thirds of the 18 members of the regional Pacific Islands Forum. Among the projects identified by Newsweek were 26 for construction at airports.

Besides squeezing their finances, analysts say the US levies are making Pacific countries wary of their historic ally, which has already cut humanitarian aid programmes. "It's just another reason ...