{"id":76502,"date":"2026-07-24T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/if-trump-really-cares-about-forced-labor-he-should-look-at-the-us-rather-than-slap-more-tariffs-on-the-world-eduardo-porter\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:55:10","slug":"if-trump-really-cares-about-forced-labor-he-should-look-at-the-us-rather-than-slap-more-tariffs-on-the-world-eduardo-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/if-trump-really-cares-about-forced-labor-he-should-look-at-the-us-rather-than-slap-more-tariffs-on-the-world-eduardo-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"If Trump really cares about forced labor, he should look at the US \u2013 rather than slap more tariffs on the world | Eduardo Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forced labor <em>is<\/em> a problem, especially in the US, where prisoners are coerced to work for pennies \u2013 or nothing at all<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/24\/donald-trump-tariffs-white-house-correspondents-dinner-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s rationale for its new volley of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a> against everybody.<\/p>\n<p>The new levies, ostensibly to punish countries for failing to do enough to curb forced labor, switched on at 12.01am on Friday, to coincide with the expiration of a temporary 10% blanket duty that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> imposed in February, ostensibly to protect the United States from a balance-of-payments crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/24\/trump-tariffs-forced-labor-us-prisons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced labor is a problem, especially in the US, where prisoners are coerced to work for pennies \u2013 or nothing at all US politics live \u2013 latest updates Don\u2019t believe the Trump administration\u2019s rationale for its new volley of tariffs against everybody. The new levies, ostensibly to punish countries for failing to do enough to &#8230; <a title=\"If Trump really cares about forced labor, he should look at the US \u2013 rather than slap more tariffs on the world | Eduardo Porter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/if-trump-really-cares-about-forced-labor-he-should-look-at-the-us-rather-than-slap-more-tariffs-on-the-world-eduardo-porter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about If Trump really cares about forced labor, he should look at the US \u2013 rather than slap more tariffs on the world | Eduardo Porter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}