The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative imposed additional Section 301 duties on products of 60 economies on July 23, 2026, at the direction of the President, for the failure of each economy to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on imports of goods produced with forced labor. The duties apply to products entered for consumption on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern time on July 24, 2026. [1] [2]
USTR set the additional rate at 10 percent for economies that impose a forced labor import prohibition, have committed to one through an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, or have imposed a partial regime with the same effect. For every other investigated economy, the rate is 12.5 percent. Both rates apply net of a product's most-favored-nation duty. [1]
The duties cover all products of each investigated economy, with exemptions in Annexes I and II to the notice. USTR also established tariff-rate quotas for Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Malaysia, based on each economy's imports of U.S. inputs, to encourage imports of U.S. cotton and textile goods. [1]
The action appears as 91 FR 47318 (document number 2026-15181) in the Federal Register of July 28, 2026. Goods loaded and in transit before 12:01 a.m. eastern time on July 24, 2026, and entered before July 28, 2026, are exempt from the additional duty. [1] USTR announced the action in a release dated July 23, 2026. [2]