US small businesses challenge Trump’s new ‘forced labor’ tariffs
- In lawsuit on Friday, two small businesses said latest round of tariffs on 60 countries needs to be legally justified.
- Two United States small businesses have challenged US President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners, saying that the new policy, like most of Trump’s previous tariffs, went beyond the president’s authority to tax imports.
- The lawsuit, filed on Friday in the US trade court in New York, argues that the new tariffs require more detailed country-specific findings about “forced labor” to be legally justified.
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- In lawsuit on Friday, two small businesses said latest round of tariffs on 60 countries needs to be legally justified.
- Two United States small businesses have challenged US President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners, saying that the new policy, like most of Trump’s previous tariffs, went beyond the president’s authority to tax imports.
- The lawsuit, filed on Friday in the US trade court in New York, argues that the new tariffs require more detailed country-specific findings about “forced labor” to be legally justified.
Sources: Al Jazeera