Everyone Is Complicit |
Last week the Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to the Trump administration’s Section 301 tariffs on China. These are used against “unreasonable and discriminatory practices.” There is little doubt that China’s brutal treatment of Uyghur minorities, filtering them into industrial work camps against their will, qualifies as “forced labor” under Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
But the Trump administration is essentially rebuilding the tariff regime it erected........