Since the EU has laws against the importation of goods made with forced labour, enforcement, it seems, is in the eyes of the beholder: the Trump administration. Trump’s forced labour cases against the EU are a solution in search of a problem. There are two International Labor Organization agreements banning forced labour. The forced labour cases are the stalking horse for a broader strategy: extraterritorial application of US law. Two dozen US members of congress recently urged president Trump to launch a 301 investigation of the DMA comparable to the administration’s forced labour actions.