As a legal deadline struck at midnight Friday, President Trump unveiled a new layer of tariffs — ranging from 10% to 12.5% — on 60 nations, anchoring the policy in the moral language of forced labor rather than the emergency economic powers the Supreme Court had already rejected. The move reflects a recurring tension in American trade governance: the desire to project economic and ethical authority abroad, constrained by the boundaries courts draw at home. With 27.6 million people estimated to be living under forced labor conditions globally, the question is not only whether these tariffs are
Trump Imposes New Double-Digit Tariffs on 60 Countries as Temporary Levies Expire
Global forced labor affects approximately 27.6 million people daily according to ILO statistics, though tariffs' effectiveness in reducing this remains debated by human rights experts.