Why is Trump using forced labor allegation to rebuild his tariff regime?

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  Coming up, major trading partners of the United States decry Washington's new tariff proposal,

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  rejecting forced labor allegations.

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  A U.S. proposal to impose new tariffs has triggered widespread backlashes from its major trading partners.

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  The Trump administration has proposed new tariffs of up to more than 12% on imports from 60 economies,

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  claiming that they have failed to ban or adequately restrict U.S. imports made with forced labor.

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  China's foreign ministry has described the U.S. finding as a pretext for political manipulation.

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  Mr. Bernard Lund, chairman of the European Parliament's trading committee, has also termed the U.S. finding

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  utterly absurd, adding that the European Union has already adopted very tough rules targeting forced labor.

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