Yesterday, the Trump administration announced additions to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, targeting a Chinese genomics company and related entities.

Since the U.S. imposition of forced labor Section 301 tariffs, mainstream Chinese media outlets, including the Global Times, China.com, and People’s Daily, have published commentaries from Chinese scholars criticizing the use of the tariffs.

At a hearing today, a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) pressed lawyers for both plaintiffs and the U.S. government about their arguments related to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration in response to concerns about trade in goods made using forced labor.

This post was written with China Trade Monitor intern Neil Jiang. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at using advanced scientific testing to prevent Chinese tomato imports linked to forced labor from entering the U.S. market through intermediary countries.

In the lawsuit against the Section 301 tariffs on 60 economies that the Trump administration deems to have insufficient laws or enforcement against imports made with forced labor, the plaintiffs in the lead case have filed a motion for judgment based on the agency record.

In a ruling issued on Friday, a U.S. Court of International Trade judge ordered that a decision not to remove a Chinese company from the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List be remanded for further consideration.

At the end of July, the Trump administration made significant additions to the list of entities having ties to forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.