MARKETSSTORY 823· JULY 24, 2026

Trading partners push back on forced-labor rationale behind Trump's new global tariff

A tariff, meaning a tax one government places on goods arriving from another country, is now at the center of a new dispute over U.S. trade policy. The Trump administration imposed a global one and justified it partly

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