Trump to impose new double-digit tariffs on imports from 60 countries
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Comments: by Julia Manchester - 07/23/26 6:14 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Julia Manchester - 07/23/26 6:14 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING President Trump will impose double-digit tariffs on imports from 60 countries over forced labor violations, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced Thursday.
The action will cover 99.4 percent of U.S. imports and apply to Washington’s top trading partners, according to a fact sheet released by his office.
The tariffs are being brought under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which Trump has been using to implement tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled against his “liberation day” tariffs earlier this year. The new levies, which go into effect at midnight Friday, will replace tariffs that Trump imposed under Section 122 of the trade law earlier this year following that decision as they were set to expire.
The tariffs are a part of an effort from the administration to push all the country’s trading partners to eliminate forced labor from the global supply chain.
Ten percent tariffs will be implemented on countries that have made commitments to adopt and enforce forced labor import prohibitions, while countries that have not enacted a forced labor import prohibition will be hit with a 12.5 percent tariff.
“The United States has had a forced labor import ban for nearly a century, and rigorously enforces it; it’s well past time for our trading partners to do the same,” Greer said in a statement.
“Today’s action will begin to correct what is both a human rights abuse and distortive trade practice to improve the welfare of workers everywhere,” he continued.
Thursday’s tariffs are only the latest to be announced by the Trump administration this week. On Monday, the administration announced it would add a 50 percent tariff on certain Canadian goods in response to what the administration said were “discriminatory” trade measures from Canada.
Additionally, Trump said this week he is taking a look at imposing tariffs on Canada for what he has said is the mismanagement of wildfires in the country that have impacted the U.S.
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