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Australia is facing a new 12.5% US tariff over anti-slavery claims. Are they actually right?
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The US is threatening 12.5% tariffs on 60 countries including Australia over alleged inaction on forced and slave labour in supply chains, which Australian PM Albanese disputes as unjustified.
Australia is facing a new 12.5% US tariff over anti-slavery claims. Are they actually right?
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The United States is threatening to impose trade tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries, including Australia, over their inaction on forced and slave labour worldwide.
On Wednesday, US trade representative Jamieson Greer said:
The failure of our most important trading partners to address the importation of goods made with forced labor is unacceptable.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese responded that a new tariff on exports to the US was “unjustified”, as Australia ha
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