Trump’s hypocritical new tariffs are a chance for the world to fight back | Joseph Stiglitz

The president’s pretext of stopping forced labour is only a ruse – he is trying to grab a share of global trade for the US Here he goes again. The US President, Donald Trump, is increasing and decreasing tariffs willy-nilly, violating international agreements that he himself signed and almost surely violating federal law. The only difference this time is that he has a new pretext for abusing tariffs: stopping forced labour. Of course, the administration is right that too little is being done about forced labour. But its stated concern is a ruse. With the new tariffs closely tracking the ones t