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The United States has imposed a twelve point five percent tariff on Australian exports as part of a broader trade sweep, The Guardian reports. The action affects more than eighty nations, with the Trump administration citing these countries' failure to effectively enforce prohibitions on goods made with forced labor. The tariff represents another major escalation in an increasingly contentious global trade landscape.

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