Section 301 forced labor tariffs: the rate for each country
Since July 24, 2026, goods from 60 economies pay an added 10% or 12.5% under Section 301. Five pay only enough to bring the total to that level. Here is which rate applies where, and what is left out.
In July 2026 the US Trade Representative closed 60 Section 301 investigations into trading partners that do not ban imports made with forced labor, or do not enforce the ban they have. The result is a new tariff on goods from each of them. USTR says the 60 economies supply 99.4% of US imports.
The rate depends on where the goods come from, and for five economies on the product's normal duty too. This guide sets out the rates, the dates and what is not covered.
When it started
The duty applies to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern time on July 24, 2026. Goods already loaded on a vessel and on their final leg before that moment escaped it if they were entered before 12:01 a.m. on July 28.
10%: economies with a ban, or a promise of one
Economies that ban imports made with forced labor, have committed to a ban in a trade agreement, or have a partial ban pay 10%. They are Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom.
Goods of Canada or Mexico entered free of duty under the USMCA do not pay it.
For Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia, USTR is also to set up tariff-rate quotas that let a set volume of textiles and apparel enter free of the duty, based on how much US cotton and textile inputs each one buys. Until those quotas exist, the 10% applies to that apparel too.
Top-ups: the EU, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland
Five economies pay only enough to bring the total to a set level. For goods of the European Union and Taiwan, the duty brings the normal (MFN) rate plus the Section 301 duty to 10%. For goods of Japan, South Korea and Switzerland, it brings the total to 12.5%. If the normal rate is already at or above that level, the Section 301 duty is zero. A normal rate charged per unit counts as a percentage of the customs value. For South Korean goods entered under the KORUS free trade agreement, the cap counts the KORUS rate instead, so Korean goods that enter free under KORUS pay the full 12.5%.
So a German product with a 2.5% normal duty pays 7.5% under this action, for 10% in total. A Japanese product with a 16% normal duty pays nothing extra.
12.5%: the other 38
The other 38 investigated economies pay 12.5%: Algeria, Angola, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Guyana, Hong Kong, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Peru, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela and Vietnam. The European Union counts as one of the 60, so the top-up covers all 27 member states.
The duty adds to others already in place. A cordless telephone set from China (8517.11.00.00) carries 12.5% under this action and 7.5% under the earlier China Section 301 tariffs, 20% in total, while the same set from Vietnam carries 12.5%. The duty-by-origin table on each heading page in our tariff catalog shows these totals line by line.
What is left out
The action does not cover informational materials, donations or accompanied baggage. Textile and apparel goods of Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras or Nicaragua entered free of duty under CAFTA-DR are also left out.
Note 52 of chapter 99 lists the rest. Goods properly entered under a chapter 98 provision do not pay, except goods repaired, altered, processed or assembled abroad under 9802.00.40 to 9802.00.80, which pay only on the value added abroad. Note 52(b) leaves out every product in a list of HTS provisions, and note 52(c) sixteen particular articles, such as sesame and other oil seeds for sowing. Civil aircraft and their parts are left out only if they meet general note 6 and fall in a provision listed in note 52(d), and articles for pharmaceutical use only if note 52(e) lists their provision.
Note 52(f) of chapter 99 also leaves out goods that pay certain Section 232 duties: steel, aluminum and copper under headings 9903.82.02 and 9903.82.04 to 9903.82.26; passenger vehicles, light trucks and their parts; wood products; medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, buses and their parts; semiconductors; and, from July 31, 2026, patented pharmaceuticals. The exclusion follows the headings the note lists, not Section 232 in general: a metal derivative with less than 15% metal content enters under 9903.82.03 and still pays the forced labor duty.
The annexes to the notice also exempt specific products for each economy: raw materials whose supply could run short, goods whose taxing could disrupt the economy, goods the US cannot produce in enough quantity, and some goods from economies that USTR wants to encourage to adopt a ban. Check a product against the annex for its country of origin before you assume it pays.
