In the coming months, some of the worst collateral damage of U.S. tariff wars will occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The adverse impact is likely to be aggravated by U.S. protectionism, which shuns economic integration in Africa.
After U.S. tariff wars undermined the global recovery momentum in 2018, the World Bank projected in June that the world economy would only expand by 2.6 percent. The International Monetary Fund ((IMF)) has affirmed the trade wars could wipe $455 billion off global GDP in 2020.
The adverse impact on sub-Saharan Africa is reflected by downgraded projections. In April,