Tariffs ranging from 10% to 12.5% will take effect Friday against more than 60 U.S. trading partners, including the European Union, as the White House shifts to a new legal approach following a Supreme Court ruling against its earlier global levies.
By yourNEWS Media Newsroom
The Trump administration announced Thursday that the United States will impose new tariffs of between 10% and 12.5% on goods from more than 60 trading partners, accusing the affected governments of failing to adequately enforce prohibitions on forced labor.
The duties are scheduled to take effect Friday, immediately after temporary 10% global tariffs expire at midnight. The European Union is among the trading partners covered by the new policy, although the administration did not provide additional details about which countries would face the higher 12.5% rate.
The announcement represents the White House’s first major attempt to establish broad international tariffs since the Supreme Court ruled in February that President Donald Trump had exceeded his legal authority when imposing his previous worldwide levies.
Trump said after that decision that his administration would pursue alternative legal mechanisms for placing tariffs on foreign goods. The latest action ties the new duties to allegations that dozens of trading partners have not properly enforced bans on products associated with forced labor.
By grounding the tariffs in labor-enforcement concerns, the administration is seeking to restore a wide-ranging trade policy through a different legal route rather than extending the expiring global duties under the authority rejected by the court.
The tariffs will affect more than 60 trading partners and begin at 10%, with some rising to 12.5%. The change means affected imports will remain subject to additional duties even after the temporary global tariff structure ends.
The administration did not announce how long the new tariffs would remain in place or what steps individual countries could take to secure their removal. It also did not identify specific forced-labor violations attributed to each trading partner.
The policy extends Trump’s use of tariffs as leverage against foreign governments while placing labor practices at the center of the administration’s latest trade action. Its implementation Friday will test whether the revised legal justification can withstand the challenges that ended the president’s earlier global tariff program.
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