Trump Tariff Tracker – April 27, 2026

Tomorrow, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) will begin holding public hearings for two days (April 28 and April 29), regarding the Section 301 investigations into 60 economies' acts, policies, and practices related to the failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor. The focus of these investigations and hearings is not on whether a country relies on forced labor in domestic production. The investigations are examining whether a country’s laws prohibit the importation of goods made with forced labor and whether those prohibitions are adequately enforced. In initiating these Section 301 investigations, the USTR suggested that trading partners have failed to maintain and enforce import restrictions comparable to those in the U.S. U.S. law already bars imports made with forced labor. Sixty organizations and individuals have signed up to testify at the hearings. Over 450 comments have been filed