Tag: forced labor
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A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade heard arguments this week on whether the administration’s forced-labor tariffs, covering roughly 99 percent of U.S. imports from 60 trading partners, exceed the authority Congress granted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026. The legal foundation of the United…
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A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade takes up whether Section 301 can carry a global tariff, eight months after the Supreme Court struck down the last one WASHINGTON, September 30, 2026. The legal architecture holding up the United States tariff regime faces its most serious test since February when a three-judge panel…
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Ambassador Greer convenes G20 trade ministers in Milwaukee this week with an agenda built around forced labor, steel overcapacity and a rewrite of the most favored nation principle, testing whether Washington can turn a tariff program into a multilateral rulebook MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – Trade ministers from the world’s largest economies arrive in Wisconsin…
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A three-judge panel hears argument Wednesday on the Section 301 forced labor tariffs covering 60 economies. It is the administration’s third tariff statute in a year, and the first one that says the word “duties” out loud. NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2026 – The Court of International Trade hears oral argument Wednesday morning in consolidated…
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Greer hosts the G20 trade ministers this week with conditional most favored nation treatment on the agenda, a steel overcapacity ministerial bolted to the front of it, and the memory of a finance track that could not agree a communique four weeks ago. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer opens…
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USTR brought representatives of more than 50 economies to Washington to learn how to build forced-labor import bans, the enforcement arm of a Section 301 tariff program that now touches 99.4 percent of American imports. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative convened representatives of more than 50 trading partners on…
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A new Federal Register notice signals the next stage of Washington’s sweeping forced labor tariff program, as importers from 60 economies absorb duties of 10 to 12.5 percent and foreign governments press their objections By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, September 13, 2026. The Office of the United States Trade Representative moved…
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An 80-minute phone call between Presidents Lula and Trump revives stalled negotiations over the 25 percent Section 301 tariff and the 12.5 percent forced-labor duty squeezing Brazilian exports to the United States WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2026 The United States and Brazil agreed on Friday to restart negotiations over the tariffs Washington imposed on Brazilian goods…
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Oslo readies for a fresh round of American tariffs after talks in Washington produce no relief from a 12.5 percent forced labor levy, with a second Section 301 decision on industrial overcapacity expected within weeks WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2026 – Norway walked out of high level trade talks in Washington this week with no relief…
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China’s formal request to join Brazil’s WTO challenge to Washington’s forced-labor tariffs has turned a bilateral complaint into a test of whether the multilateral trading system can still discipline unilateral trade measures at all. GENEVA, August 12, 2026, China has formally asked to join the World Trade Organization consultations that Brazil opened against the United…