Trump finds a new way to impose sweeping tariffs across the world

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  Good morning.

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  Sweeping global tariffs are back as President Trump finds a novel legal argument to target US imports.

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  This is really again the first time that they've used multiple countries at once.

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  This is most of our major trading partners all lumped into this one single action.

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  It's Friday, July 24th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shmeeta Bassu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  The Trump administration has announced double-digit tariffs for 60 economies, citing concerns about forced labor.

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  The new duties take effect today and will hit the vast majority of US trading partners.

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  On the lower end of the spectrum, trading partners will get a 10% tariff and that ranges up to a 12.5% tariff.

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  That's Alicia Diaz, a trade reporter at Bloomberg.

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  She writes that this marks the broadest increase in tariffs since Trump's so-called Liberation Day in early 2025.

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  Those were eventually struck down by the Supreme Court, which ruled that Trump lacked the authority to act without Congress.

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  And so the administration came back and said okay, what are some of the other legal avenues that we can use

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  to add duties back onto our trading partners and continue this ongoing effort to bring manufacturing back to America.

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  Diaz told us that the Trump administration is relying on Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act,

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  which allows the president to impose tariffs on foreign countries that engage in unreasonable or discriminatory trade practices.

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  It's traditionally been used for kind of specific cases like China in Trump's first administration was targeted under this legal jurisdiction,

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