From today, July 24, Dutch goods going to the United States face an extra tariff of 10% or 12.5%. Forced labour. Clearly not one to mince words, he branded the US investigation “utterly absurd”, given the EU ban on forced labour products. Dutch trade with the US is decliningThe US is the Netherlands’ fifth-largest export destination and its second-biggest outside the EU, after the UK. Dutch goods exports to the US dropped 4.7% in the first ten months of 2025, falling every single month from July.