Officials around the world are pushing back on the rationale for the new import duties.
Trump imposes tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on countries accused of allowing forced labor, after the Supreme Court overturned previous emergency tariffs.
The Trump administration has plans to immediately end U.S.-backed programs that combat child labor, forced labor and other abuses in dozens of countries around the world. John Clark, a Trump-appointed ...
U.S. trading partners have rejected the forced labor rationale behind Trump's new global tariffs, while most signaled plans to keep negotiating.
It can happen in fields, restaurants, hotels and construction sites—a type of human trafficking often hiding in plain sight and receiving far less media coverage. Labor trafficking is a human rights ...
The coalition argues the administration used forced-labor concerns as a pretext to recreate tariffs the Supreme Court struck down earlier this year ...
South Africa has asked the United States to exempt it from proposed tariffs tied to a U.S. investigation into the enforcement of forced labor in dozens of countries.
The move is the first step in efforts to rebuild his near-global tariff wall after the Supreme Court in February struck down his "reciprocal" duties.
The U.S. will put taxes of 10 percent to 12.5 percent on imports – alleging that the countries impacted have inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labour ...
Some 17 countries will face a 10% tariff because they adopted at least some forced-labor restrictions, five will receive effective rates of 10% to 12.5%, depending on the product, and 38 are subject ...