There were two developments related to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List last week: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the addition of three Chinese companies to the Entity List; and Ninestar filed an amended complaint related to its inclusion on the list.

Two members of Congress on a China Commission are pressing retailers Costco and ADI on their sale of products from Chinese companies whose products are connected to allegations of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

In a recent anti-dumping and countervailing duties investigation on optical fibre cables from China, the UK's Trade Remedy Authority (TRA) recommended imposing anti-dumping and countervailing duties, and in its reasoning in the anti-dumping case it took into account Chinese government influence over the industry and labor policies.

Yesterday, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China held a hearing on "How Forced Labor in China Taints America’s Seafood Supply Chain," with various witnesses testifying about different aspects of the issue.

The European Union's efforts to adopt a regulation on forced labor are progressing, as Parliament has moved the regulation forward, but finalizing the regulation could stretch into next year.

In the U.S. federal court challenge to a U.S. government decision to include them on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, Chinese company Ninestar and its subsidiaries have now filed their reply to the U.S. brief that argued for dismissal of the case and

A bipartisan group of members of Congress has written a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator, "urging him to take immediate action against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) Chinese fishing fleets that operate globally," including consultations and, possibly, "corrective action."