Australia to raise concerns over new tariffs with Trump, PM Albanese says

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday he would seek to raise the issue of tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, after Washington

this week imposed new tariffs on its trading partners including Australia.



The United States on Friday imposed new tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners, alleging those countries failed to curb the trade of goods made by forced labour, just as a temporary 10% global tariff expired.



The Albanese-led Labor government has described the tariffs as unjustified and says it wants them removed.



Albanese, asked on Sunday if he would seek to discuss the issue with Trump, said "absolutely".



"We'll raise it at every level in the Australia-U.S. relationship, we've already done so," he said in televised remarks.



Australia has very strong provisions on modern slavery and

was "strengthening those even further by going through the

supply chain issues and making sure that indeed substantial

fines and penalties can be paid", Albanese said.