President Donald Trump is moving forward with another plan to impose broad tariffs on imports from countries around the world, this time tying the policy to forced-labor enforcement rather than the emergency-powers rationale that failed in court.

According to The New York Times, the new duties apply to 60 countries that the administration says allow products made with forced labor to enter their markets. “The tariffs will range from 10 percent to 12.5 percent and take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, replacing a global 10 percent duty set to lapse at the same time,” the report said.

The Times noted that the United States “has prohibited the importation of goods made with slave labor for nearly a century, though it still allows prison labor under conditions that labor organizations consider coercive. In 2021, the United States passed a law banning imports from a region of China where it had found forced labor to be rampant.”

Some experts, however, view the forced-labor rationale as a pretext for the administration’s latest tariff push. Georgetown Law School visiting scholar Peter Harrell said the move “just brings home that [the U.S. Trade Representative] is using this forced labor investigation as a pretext to impose tariffs that Trump wants to impose for his own economic theories and preferences.”

Canada and the European Union are among the affected entities. Both already have bans in place or scheduled to take effect, but the Trump administration has accused them of failing to enforce those measures adequately. The inclusion of close U.S. trading partners underscores that the policy is not limited to countries directly accused of producing forced-labor goods, but also targets governments the administration says are not doing enough to keep such goods out of their own markets.

Trump previously attempted to impose global “reciprocal tariffs” under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA. A series of federal courts, and ultimately the Supreme Court, struck down that policy, ruling that IEEPA does not give the president unilateral authority to impose tariffs.

Since that defeat, Trump has sought other ways to enact similar import taxes. Economists have warned that his tariff policies are contributing to slower growth and worsening inflation, because tariffs are paid by importers and can raise costs for businesses and consumers depending on how companies absorb or pass along the added expense.