SINO-US TRADE

Senate Steps Up Efforts to More Effectively Bar Imports Made with Xinjiang Forced Labour

16 July 2021

The Senate on 14 July unanimously approved legislation aimed at ensuring that goods made with forced labour in mainland China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region do not enter the U.S. market. The legislation would have to be approved by the House of Representatives and signed into law by President Biden for it to enter into force. More

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U.S. Government Continues to Urge Firms to Avoid Xinjiang Forced Labour in Supply Chains

14 July 2021

Six U.S. government agencies on 13 July issued an updated advisory for U.S. businesses whose supply chains run through mainland China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This document updates advice originally provided in a 1 July 2020 interagency memo and more emphatically enjoins the business community to avoid forced labour in their supply chains. More

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Export Restrictions Imposed on 23 Mainland Chinese Entities

12 July 2021

The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule that effective 12 July adds 23 mainland Chinese entities to the Entity List. Fourteen of these entities are being added for ostensibly enabling “Beijing’s campaign of repression, mass detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and members of other Muslim minority groups” in the XUAR. More

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U.S. Maintains Current Policy Towards Hong Kong

09 July 2021

As expected, President Biden issued an administrative order on 7 July 2021 continuing for an additional year the national emergency declared by President Trump with respect to Hong Kong via executive order dated 14 July 2020. Among other things, the extension of this measure means that U.S. Customs and Border Protection will continue to require all goods originating in Hong Kong to be marked to indicate “China” as their country of origin. More

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Report Claims US$10 Billion Loss from Efforts to Evade Mainland China Tariffs

25 June 2021

The U.S. lost an estimated US$10 billion in tariff revenue in 2020 from efforts to evade U.S. tariffs, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The findings could prompt lawmakers or others to pressure CBP to further ramp up its efforts to enforce tariff collections. More

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U.S. Bars Silica-Based Products from Key Mainland Chinese Producer

25 June 2021

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 24 June issued a new withhold release order requiring with immediate effect the detention at all U.S. ports of entry of shipments containing silica-based products made by Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. Ltd., a company located in mainland China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. More

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Biden Replaces TikTok and WeChat Bans with Broader Data Framework

17 June 2021

On 9 June, President Biden revoked three separate Trump administration executive orders that had aimed to prohibit transactions with TikTok, WeChat and eight other communications and financial technology software applications. More

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Report Critical of Failure to Adopt U.S. Export Controls on Emerging and Foundational Technologies

11 June 2021

A recent report is critical of the U.S. Department of Commerce for having not yet implemented a law enacted in 2018 to expand export controls on emerging and foundational technologies. More

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U.S. Expands List of Mainland Chinese Firms Subject to Securities Transaction Ban

11 June 2021

President Biden on 3 June signed an executive order expanding the scope of a 12 November 2020 executive order issued by President Trump that banned investments in companies deemed to have direct or indirect ties to mainland China’s military. Among other things, the new EO expands the list of covered firms from 42 to 59 and includes “surveillance” firms along with “military” firms. More

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Certain Mainland Chinese Watch Cases Now Exempt from Section 301 Tariffs

08 June 2021

Modifications to two U.S. Customs and Border Protection rulings will eliminate Section 301 tariffs on certain watch cases made in mainland China and affect continued eligibility for duty preferences when these components are manufactured under free trade agreements or preference programmes incorporating a substantial transformation rule of origin test. More

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