So if a country uses slave labor to keep costs down, should we just allow them to dump their products on our market?
Slave labor, meaning The State coming in and taking the fruits of a worker's labor>
Like... The State setting a tariff, meaning a consumer must -- against his will -- pay more of the fruits of his labor for the benefit of others.
People can
voluntarily boycott that country's products. But a tariff means you're talking about
forcing the consumer to boycott* -- at gunpoint, as it's instituted in law. Attempting to evade the tariff is smuggling, and you will feel the full force of The State against you. Ergo, the tariff is a form of slave labor to meet The State's goals.
*if you're going to say that it's not a boycott because they can choose to buy it, then where's that hurting the slave labor?