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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court.

The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 trading partners accounting for 99% of U.S. imports, charging that they have inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labor.

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Those prisoner's labour then gets sold to fast food stores etc and the prison pockets a vast majority of the pay. If they're safe enough to work at McDonalds then they can be released. But it's not about that, it's about trading human lives for corporate profits

[–] KernelTale@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

As much as I agree with you on everything you have said a big amount of society would not agree with you assuming they understood entirety of your statement. A part of legal system is not just prevention and reformation, but punishment. It is barbaric but it stems from society as a whole. I am kind of glad that we were told that in uni (computer law for 2 credits) nobody could think of the last part. I like my uni and the people, but it was not so hard to notice it outside and sometimes with even a ridiculous amount of hypocrisy.