UNITED STATES PERSPECTIVE

Washington plays two scores simultaneously on June 3. The first is offensive: the Office of the US Trade Representative publishes late Tuesday a report under the signature of Ambassador Jamieson Greer proposing additional tariffs on 60 economies — 10% on six countries (Canada, Ecuador, EU, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan), 12.5% on 54 others including China, India, Japan, Korea, Brazil, the UK, Taiwan, Australia, the Philippines, Singapore. The justification: 'The failure of our most important trading partners to address the importation of goods made with forced labor is unacceptable. This creates a dynamic where American workers are forced to compete globally on an unlevel playing field.' Bloomberg analyzes the measure in a frontal headline: 'Trump Proposes New Levies of at Least 10% to Rebuild Tariff Wall'. The agency emphasizes that the explicit target is rebuilding the tariff apparatus dismantled by the Supreme Court in February 2026. The second score is defensive: the DOJ formally filed an appeal Tuesday against the court order requiring refunds of the 'Liberation Day' tariffs — $166 billion in revenue at stake. The refund system run by US Customs and Border Protection had already processed $85 billion, with $20.6 billion approved for disbursement. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears on Bloomberg Politics to comment on market reactions — implicit tactical support for the procedure. Vox publishes a sober explainer titled 'How Trump is justifying new tariffs'. The American press documents the procedural mechanics but avoids calling forced labor a pretext. The word 'rebuild' is everywhere — the ambition is explicit. The word 'pretext' is absent.