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US small businesses sue Trump administration over new โ€˜forced labourโ€™ tariffs

Two US small businesses on Friday โ challenged President Donald โ Trumpโ€™s latest round of tariffs on goods โ from 60 trading partners, saying that the new policy, like most of Trumpโ€™s previous tariffs, went beyond the presidentโ€™s authority to tax imports. The lawsuit, filed in the US trade court in New York, argues that the new tariffs require โ€Œmore detailed country-specific findings about โ€œforced labourโ€ to be legally justified. The two small businesses, backed by a non-profit legal group that...