内容摘要：U.S. politicians, law enforcement agencies and business groups lobbied to remove the long-standing exemption, describing it as a trade loophole that gave inexpensive Chinese goods an advantage and served as a portal for illicit drugs and counterfeits to enter the country.

U.S. politicians, law enforcement agencies and business groups lobbied to remove the long-standing exemption, describing it as a trade loophole that gave inexpensive Chinese goods an advantage and served as a portal for illicit drugs and counterfeits to enter the country.

A sticker of a wheelchair-bound soldier holding a rifle is seen on the windshield of Oleksandr Puzikov, a captain with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost an arm in combat, during a drive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)A sticker of a wheelchair-bound soldier holding a rifle is seen on the windshield of Oleksandr Puzikov, a captain with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost an arm in combat, during a drive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who lost his right arm in battle, drives a car in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who lost his right arm in battle, drives a car in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)They are among Ukraine’s 380,000 war wounded, according to

. Some 46,000 soldiers have been killed during the three-year war, and tens of thousands are missing and in captivity.On the front line Russia is expending huge amounts of weaponry and human life to make small but

to the nearly one-fifth of Ukraine it controls. Meanwhile Ukraine, outnumbered and outgunned, faces challenges not only on the battlefield

, raising fears that Ukraine and its European partners will be sidelined.Isha Len, a migrant of Cameroon, poses for a photo in Panama City, Monday, March 10, 2025, after being deported from the U.S., detained for weeks in a Panamanian immigration camp, and released on a temporary humanitarian visa allowing a 30‑day stay. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Isha Len, a migrant of Cameroon, poses for a photo in Panama City, Monday, March 10, 2025, after being deported from the U.S., detained for weeks in a Panamanian immigration camp, and released on a temporary humanitarian visa allowing a 30‑day stay. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)After conflict broke out in her small town, Len crossed Cameroon by car and minibus, then a fisherman friend carried her four hours by boat to Nigeria.

Len, a schoolteacher, flew to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she said authorities detained her for a month in the airport. From there, she wound north through South America by bus, following other migrants until they reached the Darién Gap.She walked days through the dangerous jungle that divides Colombia and Panama before boarding buses that carried her through Central America. After being kidnapped for days by a gang in Guatemala, she crossed into southern Mexico, where she took a boat along the Pacific coast to evade authorities. After she landed, she rode eight hours to Mexico City, continuing on by bus and car to Tijuana.