Trump’s new tariffs anger key trading partners

BANGKOK — US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est set of tar­iffs drew im­me­di­ate ob­jec­tions from Amer­i­ca’s trad­ing part­ners, in­clud­ing Chi­na and Japan, with Aus­tralia’s trade min­is­ter slam­ming them as “com­plete­ly un­jus­ti­fied” yes­ter­day.

The ad­min­is­tra­tion an­nounced tar­iffs of 10% to 12.5% on 60 economies late Thurs­day, say­ing the coun­tries had failed to ad­e­quate­ly en­force a ban on goods made with forced labour.

The new tar­iffs took ef­fect just as stop­gap levies Trump im­posed af­ter a sting­ing de­feat at the Supreme Court ex­pired yes­ter­day.