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

7/24/2026

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.

The Trump administration imposed a global one and justified it partly on forced-labor grounds.

Trading partners rejected that reasoning, though most signaled they would keep negotiating rather than break off talks entirely.

What the forced-labor justification claims Forced labor refers to work extracted from people through coercion or threat, removing any meaningful free choice from the worker.

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