"Imports from key Southeast Asia countries (Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia) are each up roughly 20 percent year over year." In 2025, the United Trade Representative's Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force added 78 new entities to the forced labor entity list, bringing the total to 144 Chinese entities. But this is just scratching the service on how to monitor forced labor," he said. But Daniels says if the trade war has forced China to shift strategy, it hasn't resulted in weakening China's manufacturing juggernaut. "It is complicating enforcement efforts on forced labor and giving China an economic advantage."