A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants President Donald Trump to ban seafood sourced by China-linked vessels or processed in China from entering the US. market, over concerns about illegal fishing and forced labor.
The request was made in a July 14 letter from the chair, co-chair, and two commissioners of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a congressional group tasked with monitoring Beijing’s compliance with international human rights standards. The commission released the letter on July 16.
“The United States market is awash in criminally tainted seafood from China,” the lawmakers wrote.
“Chinese seafood is too often produced through forced labor and enters our market at prices honest American fishermen cannot match,” the lawmakers added. “That is not competition. It is abuse shipped into the United States.”…
Bipartisan Lawmakers Urge Trump to Ban Chinese Seafood
