US opens unfair trade practices probe of 60 countries over forced labor

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaks to the media, on the day he attends a working lunch with EU ministers responsible for trade, in Brussels, Belgium, November 24, 2025. (REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo)

WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative's office said late on Thursday it had initiated Section 301 unfair trade practices probes of 60 economies in relation to what it called failures to take action on forced labor.

"These investigations will determine whether foreign governments have taken sufficient steps to prohibit the importation of goods produced with forced labor and how the failure to eradicate these abhorrent practices impacts U.S. workers and businesses," U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement.



(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Ismail Shakil)