Kosovo scrapped all tariffs on U.S. imports on Friday, August 1st, just one day after President Donald Trump unveiled a wave of new trade duties targeting countries worldwide–but notably exempting Pristina.
The Balkan state had applied a 10% tariff on U.S. goods, while products from Kosovo have continued to face the standard 10% duty introduced by the Trump administration in April.
“Kosovo welcomes American products to its market,” said Kosovo’s caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti, announcing the zero percent tariff on U.S. goods. “We strongly believe that this will affect the growth of trade exchange and increased investments,” he told his cabinet.
Public sentiment in the landlocked territory of around 1.6 million people has been strongly pro–American since a 1999 U.S.–led NATO air campaign that stopped the crackdown of Serbian armed forces on ethnic Albanians and paved the way for Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia a decade later.
