By mislabeling imports from Hong Kong as coming from China, the United States was breaking international trade laws, the World Trade Organization (WTO) found on Wednesday, December 21. US disagrees with this judgement.

The WTO judgement addressed a decision made by the previous administration of President Donald Trump after Beijing adopted a broad security law on the financial centre in 2020 to quell criticism.

Trump replied by taking away the city's special trading privileges, and US customs officials later announced that items made there could no longer bear the "Made in Hong Kong" label, which sparked the complaint.