The US has announced plans to impose tariffs of at least 10 per cent on dozens of countries following a probe into forced labour practices, in the first significant effort by the White House to resurrect levies since its defeat at the US Supreme Court this year.
The Office of the US Trade Representative said it intended to impose tariffs on 60 countries for not doing enough to prevent the import of goods using forced labour, a failing that it claimed left US workers competing on an “unlevel playing field”.
China, the EU, India, Japan and the UK are among the major economies targeted by the proposal, which would set tariffs of between 10 per cent and 12.5 per cent.
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