U.S. imposes new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 trading partners

WASHINGTON - The United States on Friday imposed new tariffs of either 10 percent or 12.5 percent on goods from its top 60 trading partners, including China, Japan and the European Union, accusing them of failing to halt imports of goods made with forced labor.

The imposition came on the heels of the expiration of the 10 percent global tariff that President Donald Trump introduced in February shortly after the Supreme Court invalidated his sweeping country-specific "reciprocal" duties, as well as fentanyl-related levies against products from China, Canada and Mexico."President Trump recognizes that decades of moral suasion have not eradicated forced labor from global supply chains," U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement.