When the Business and Human Rights Centre queried 25 of the U.S. market’s biggest fashion companies—including Gap Inc., H&M Group, Nike and Zara owner Inditex—about labor impacts from President Donald Trump’s erratic tariff rollout, not a single brand responded, not even to decline.  This was a first for the organization, said Mayisha Begum, BHRC’s labor program officer. A year after “Liberation Day” hit partner nations with 10-50 percent additional levies, driving brands to decamp to cheaper locales or demand price cuts so steep that suppliers could only meet them by slashing wages, a black hole of information has made it difficult to assess the extent of the damage to garment workers ‘ livelihoods. While brands wielded similar contractual clout during Covid-19 to axe mid-production orders and impose discounts on shipments already en route, today’s lack of transparency is harder to penetrate, Begum said.…