A bipartisan group of members of Congress who head up the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees asking them to increase funding in order to "aggressively" enforce the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

Republican Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee sent a letter yesterday to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, applauding reports that Commerce may strengthen export controls in relation to Chinese semiconductor company SMIC, while pressing Raimondo on issues related to the implementation of possible changes.

Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa wrote a letter to President Biden this week in which they called for him to press China on agricultural purchases and to engage on trade issues in the Indo-Pacific region.

As part of the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 (the annual U.S. defense spending bill), which became law on December 20, 2019, there was a provision designed to restrict Chinese-owned companies from selling rail cars or buses to be used in U.S. transit. As Roll

In the $768 billion [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/defense-spending-bill.html] U.S. defense spending bill that Congress recently passed (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, H.R.4350 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350]), there is a provision that prohibits the

Having previously passed slightly different versions of legislation designed to address forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (see here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/senate-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-bill/] and here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-house-of-representatives-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-bill/] ), the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have now reached a compromise and drafted legislation that

In a 428-1 vote yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed [https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021412?BillNum=H.R.1155] the "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1155/text]," which is intended to "[e]nsur[e] that goods made