Last month, China's State Council announced that it will create a free trade pilot zone in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, an area that has been the source of tensions between China and the West, and turn the region into a trade hub. The official document was published yesterday,

The Biden administration released an update to an advisory on Xinjiang supply chains this week and also added three more entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List. The bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China expressed support for the Entity List move.

A Chinese company and its subsidiaries have filed a complaint in U.S. federal court challenging a U.S. government decision to include them on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List.

Last week, various members of Congress raised the issue of labor rights abuses in the supply chains of SHEIN and several and other companies, writing to both U.S. government agencies and the companies themselves.

At a hearing held today by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, the Commissioners and witnesses discussed specific aspects of the implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), as well as concerns about China more generally.

Yesterday, a bipartisan group of members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security pressing for tougher enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).

Earlier this week, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) "ramped up his investigation into auto supply chain links to forced labor in the Xinjiang region of China, with new questions for automakers and tier 1 suppliers."