Department of Homeland Security Sanctions Seafood Company for Use of Uyghur Forced Labor

By Austin Brush and Ian Urbina

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has added a large Chinese seafood company called Shandong Meijia Group to a federal list that prohibits further imports to the U.S. due to the company’s proven ties to the use of state-sponsored forced labor. The so-called “Entity List” is connected to a federal law called the Uyghur Forc…