Last week, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office issued its 2024 report on foreign trade barriers. The section on Chinese laws and regulations is mostly the same as the previous year, but new concerns on government procurement, labor, and export restrictions have been added.

Under a final rule published today, the U.S. Commerce Department will take into account "nonexistent, weak, or ineffective property (including intellectual property), human rights, labor, and environmental protections" in various ways as part of its anti-dumping/countervailing duty calculations. Chinese products are likely to be targeted here,

U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the Chair and Co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, have continued their push against seafood imports from China that are alleged to be tied to forced labor, raising new concerns about North Korean labor used in

In a ruling last week, a U.S. Court of International Trade judge rejected a Chinese company's request for a preliminary injunction against a U.S. government decision to add it to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List.

As a follow-up to a recent piece on Volkswagen products being caught up by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), there have been several reactions that are worth noting.

Hoshine Silicon (Jia Xing) Industry Co., Ltd. filed a complaint at the U.S. Court of International Trade against various U.S. government entities and officials, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), related to a forced labor Withhold Release Order (WRO)

Over the weekend, Wang Yi, China's Minister of Foreign Affairs, made remarks at the Munich Security Conference and took several questions from Christoph Heusgen, the Chairman of the conference, dealing with trade and economic issues, although broader foreign policy issues were the main focus.