US Imposes New Import Tariffs on 60 Countries, Indonesia Hit with 10 Percent
JAKARTA – United States President Donald Trump has imposed new import tariffs on 60 countries, including Indonesia, under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. The new tariff rate applied by the US to Indonesia is 10 percent.
The decision was announced by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on 23 July 2026, US time. According to a statement on its official website, US Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer said that, on Trump’s direction, final action was being taken against dozens of countries for failing to effectively adopt and enforce import bans on goods produced through forced labour.
The decision follows an investigation by the USTR, which included two rounds of public hearings, more than 2,100 public comments, and engagement with US trading partners to address these long-standing concerns.
“President Trump recognises that decades of morally persuasive approaches have failed to eliminate forced labour practices from global supply chains. The United States has banned imports of forced labour goods for nearly a century and has consistently enforced that ban. It is time for our trading partners to do the same,” said Greer, quoted from the official statement on ustr.gov on Friday (24/7/2026).
“Today’s actions will begin to correct practices that are not only human rights violations but also market-distorting trade practices, thereby improving the welfare of workers around the world. I welcome trading partners that move swiftly to adopt import bans on forced labour goods and hope to ensure their effective enforcement,” Greer continued.
In detail, the 10 percent tariff applies to 17 countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom. The 10 percent tariff for these countries is based on three main considerations: they have adopted import bans on forced labour goods, they have committed to adopting and enforcing such bans through an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART), or they have implemented partial regimes that effectively prevent imports of certain goods produced through forced labour.
A tariff of 10 percent, or 12.5 percent after deducting Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) rates, applies to the European Union, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland. A 12.5 percent tariff applies to all other countries subject to the investigation.
The USTR noted product exemptions from the tariffs. These cover raw materials that, if tariffed, could disrupt domestic supply availability in the US, products that could broadly disrupt the wider economy if tariffed, and products that cannot be grown or produced in sufficient quantities, or at reasonable prices, in the US, or cannot be obtained from alternative sources.