President Donald Trump vowed to find other ways to tax foreign goods after the Supreme Court rejected his most aggressive tariffs earlier this year. On Thursday, his administration unveiled its latest workaround.
Starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday, dozens of America’s trading partners from Europe to China to India will face new tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on goods shipped to the United States, according to a statement from the office of the US Trade Representative on Thursday. Goods from the 60 affected trading partners encompass 99.4% of US imports, the US Trade Representative said.
The timing coincides with the lapse of a 10% near-blanket duty Trump imposed earlier this year after losing the Supreme Court case.
“The president is not going to allow his trade policy and overall objectives to be undermined simply because one tool may be limited by a court or something else,” senior White House officials told reporters Thursday on a call previewing the actions.
The latest action follows a monthslong investigation by the US Trade Representative into the alleged use of forced labor to produce goods exported to the US and the failure by various countries to address the practice.
