The United States is preparing a new wave of tariffs on dozens of trading partners as its current temporary duties approach their expiry date, Al Jazeera reports. The US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, said action was imminent.
What is coming
The immediate driver is a deadline.
According to Al Jazeera, President Trump's current global tariffs are set to expire on Friday, July 25, unless Congress acts, and the White House has prepared new levies to follow. Asked in a CNBC interview about tariffs on 60 trading partners, Greer said, "We expect to see some action soon." Al Jazeera reports that the new measures target countries over a range of allegations, including a failure to address forced labor, and that they could cover the majority of US trade.
This is not a standalone announcement but the next step in a fast-moving series. Al Jazeera notes that on July 16 the US announced 25 percent duties on Brazilian goods including sugar and steel, and on July 21 a 50 percent tariff on some Canadian goods such as wine and cement, which we reported at the time. The new round would extend that approach much more widely.
The legal backdrop
What makes this moment distinctive is that the administration is working within a constraint the courts imposed.
Al Jazeera reports that in February 2026 the White House imposed tariffs under Section 122 of the US Trade Act of 1974, a provision that allows duties of up to 10 percent for 150 days without congressional approval. That route was taken after the Supreme Court struck down Trump's earlier use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping global tariffs, ruling that the president did not have that authority.
That history explains the Friday deadline: the 150-day Section 122 window is running out, which is why new legal authority, or congressional action, is now needed to keep the tariffs in place or replace them. The tariffs are not only an economic policy but a test of how far a president can go on trade without Congress, after a court said one route was off-limits.
Who pays
The politics of tariffs turn on a contested question: who actually bears the cost.
Tariffs are formally paid by importers, not by the exporting country, and they can be passed on to consumers in higher prices. Al Jazeera cites analysis suggesting that US importers and consumers bear approximately 96 percent of the cost of these tariffs, and that the burden works out to roughly $700 in additional costs per household. That framing, that a tax nominally aimed at foreign partners is largely paid at home, is central to the debate, and supporters of the tariffs contest it, arguing the measures protect domestic industry and force trading partners to change behavior.
We report the figure as an estimate attributed to analysis, not as a settled fact. What is clear is that a broad new tariff round is imminent, that a court ruling and a statutory clock are shaping its timing, and that the argument over who ultimately pays will follow it.
