The Trump administration has taken action to bar imports of copper and copper products from a Chinese company operating in Serbia, based on forced labor concerns. This follows a similar action last December against a Chinese company making tires in Serbia.

In a determination issued late last night, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office (USTR) set tariff rates in its Section 301 investigation of whether 60 economies prohibit imports made with forced labor. China and Hong Kong were hit with 12.5% tariffs, while Taiwan got 10%. USTR will

At a hearing last week held by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office on the failure of various governments to ban imports made with forced labor, various witnesses testified and U.S. government officials asked questions, with Chinese practices playing a prominent role.

In response to two Section 301 investigations recently initiated by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, a number of Chinese trade and industry associations have submitted comments and one requested to appear at the hearings.

During an interview on Fox Business News today, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer weighed in on several issues related to China-U.S. trade relations after the meeting with his Chinese counterparts in Paris.

The Trump administration announced today that it was initiating Section 301 investigations of 60 economies, including China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, to determine "whether acts, policies, and practices of each of these economies related to the failure to impose and effectively enforce a ban on the importation of goods

In a U.S. court case related to an import ban on solar products by Hoshine Silicon (Jia Xing) Industry Co., Ltd., involving concerns about forced labor, the U.S. government requested and received a court remand to reconsider its original determination. In its reconsideration, it concluded that Hoshine "