As nations are scrambling to find out if they are subject to the new tariffs imposed on Thursday by the Trump administration, for supposedly failing to crack down on forced labor, the US trade representative\u2019s office has provided a list of nations or economic blocs supposedly guilty of a \u201cFailure to Impose and Effectively Enforce a Prohibition on the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labor\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to a draft version of the Federal Register Notice:<\/p>\n
\ndouble quotation mark<\/title>On June 2, 2026, the Trade Representative determined that, in each of the 60 investigations, certain of the acts, polices, and practices of the economy at issue are actionable under sections 301(b) and 304(a) of the Trade Act. The Trade Representative also issued a comprehensive report, Acts, Policies, and Practices of Various Economies Related to the Failure to Impose and Effectively Enforce a Prohibition on the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labor (Report).<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the Trade Representative determined that:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The following 54 economies have failed to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor: <strong class=\"dcr-in3yi3\">Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; the Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Brazil; Cambodia; Chile; China, People\u2019s Republic of; Colombia; Costa Rica; Dominican Republic; Egypt; El Salvador; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Hong Kong, China; India; Iraq; Israel; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Libya; Malaysia; Morocco; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Norway; Oman; Peru; the Philippines; Qatar; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; South Africa; South Korea; Sri Lanka; Switzerland; Taiwan; Thailand; Trinidad and Tobago; T\u00fcrkiye; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; Uruguay; Venezuela; <\/strong>and<strong class=\"dcr-in3yi3\"> Vietnam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The following six economies have failed to effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor: <strong class=\"dcr-in3yi3\">Canada, Ecuador, the European Union, Indonesia, Mexico, <\/strong>and<strong class=\"dcr-in3yi3\"> Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Since there are 27 countries in the European Union, a total of 86 nations are subject to the new US tariffs which go into effect on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As nations are scrambling to find out if they are subject to the new tariffs imposed on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}