Southern Shrimp Alliance Petitions for Chinese Seafood Company to Be Added to UFLPA Entity List
The Southern Shrimp Alliance again requested that Chinese company Rongcheng Sanyue Foodstuff Co., Ltd., be added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act’s Entity List, in a letter sent Dec. 30 to DHS' Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force.
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The alliance is renewing a request it made Jan. 29 (see 2401290045) to have the company added to UFLPA's Entity List because the "company has refused to allow U.S. government officials access to its facilities in China but nevertheless has continued to export Argentine red shrimp to the U.S. market," it said in its new letter.
The FDA added the company to Import Alert 99-32 in 2023 because Rongcheng Sanyue barred U.S. government officials from inspecting its production plant, but the company continued to export shipments of shrimp. The alliance found import records showing that "Rongcheng Sanyue has exported at least another three containers of Argentine red shrimp to U.S. ports since the FDA refusal."
The original petition was based on Outlaw Ocean Project's Bait to Plate study in 2023 that indicated that Chinese seafood processing plants are employing Uyghurs that have forcibly been relocated from Xinjiang (see 2310230046).
“Rongcheng Sanyue has prohibited our government from inspecting its processing plant but still sells seafood into the U.S. market,” said John Williams, Southern Shrimp Alliance executive director. “If anyone in our industry told the FDA to take a hike, that company would be immediately shut down. But for Rongcheng Sanyue, blowing off the FDA has allowed the company to conceal any benefit obtained from the Chinese government’s oppression of the Uyghur minority without consequence.”