Nigeria, April 8 -- Nigeria's Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has said the country will not be severely affected by the United States' decision to impose a tariff on certain imports from countries without a trade agreement, due to the dominance of crude oil and mineral products in its US -bound exports.

"It's not too bad," Mr Edun said on Monday at the inaugural Corporate Governance Forum organised by the Ministry of Finance Incorporated in Abuja.

"Oil minerals are excluded by America from being in any way sanctioned with tariffs."

The US tariff adjustment comes amid growing trade tensions and a review of developing countries' access to preferential treatment under American trade law.

Although ...