Kabul, April 4 -- The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment has flayed the imposition of 10 percent tariff by Washington on Afghan exports to the United States as "unfair" and called for reconsideration.
"The export of dried fruit to America is not that high; it is only about 10 million US dollars per year," the private media outlet Ariana News quoted Abdul Qasim Omarkhil, an Afghan dried fruit exporter as saying.
The Afghan businessman, who is also the head of the dried fruit exporters association, called on the US administration to reconsider the decision.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order introducing a 10-percent "minimum baseline tariff" on all imports, including those from war-torn Afghanistan...