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MANILA, Philippines — It’s official: the United States is imposing an additional 12.5-percent tariff on Philippine exports after President Donald Trump approved penalties on trading partners that Washington said failed to adopt adequate safeguards against goods made with forced labor.
The decision was announced Friday (Manila time) by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), which had spent the past several months investigating 60 economies to determine whether they effectively prohibit the importation of goods produced through forced labor.
In its findings, the USTR had said the “Philippines has failed to impose and effectively enforce a forced-labor import prohibition.”
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