Danielle Kurtzleben
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first heard Jul 2026
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imports.
Now, all that said, some big categories like energy and a lot of foods are going to be exempted.
These new tariffs, they started at midnight, the exact same time that a 10 percent global tariff expired.
No.
A senior administration official, not authorized to speak on the record, told reporters that, yes, the administration has long cared about forced labor, but they timed it this way to keep things simple for businesses.
I will add, though, that not everyone sees this as a good-faith effort at improving labor practices.
Here was Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden at a hearing this week.
And really, it's noteworthy that here the administration is saying that no other country, not even its biggest trading partners, is doing enough to fight forced labor.
For many tariffs the administration is proposing, the process is slower.
These new tariffs are the result of a months-long investigation into whether other countries subject the U.S.
to unfair competition.
That said, he still can make some quick decisions.
This week, he signed proclamations imposing new 50 percent tariffs on some Canadian goods to start just under a
that it's still possible in that time that the two countries will negotiate all or some of those tariffs away.
Now, altogether, there's just still a lot of complexity here with all these new tariffs happening under a variety of different laws.
And they're on top of existing tariffs on things like aluminum and lumber and semiconductors and on individual countries like Brazil.
One other thing is that still more tariffs could be coming.
There's another investigation into more than a dozen countries in the EU.
The administration says they may be manufacturing unfairly, for example, by overproducing.
Well, poll after poll shows that Americans don't like the tariffs and that their approval of the president on the economy has fallen.
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