Cotton to Blanche: Investigate Chinese-Controlled Delivery Networks

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May 21, 2026

Cotton to Blanche: Investigate Chinese-Controlled Delivery Networks

Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche urging an investigation into Chinese-controlled third-party logistics networks. Chinese-controlled delivery networks undercut American operators while collecting sensitive data on addresses, businesses, and critical infrastructure.

In part, Senator Cotton wrote:

"I write asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review Chinese-controlled last-mile delivery and third-party logistics (3PL) networks.

These companies move through American neighborhoods, commercial districts, and roads near critical infrastructure. They collect detailed data on routes, businesses, and homes while undercutting American competitors on price. This is a familiar playbook: Chinese firms enter the United States at subsidized prices, capture market share, and embed themselves into daily American commerce. Last-mile logistics is just the most recent example."

Full text of the letter may be found here and below.

May 19, 2026

The Honorable Todd Blanche
Acting Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20530

Dear Acting Attorney General Blanche:

I write asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review Chinese-controlled last-mile delivery and third-party logistics (3PL) networks.

These companies move through American neighborhoods, commercial districts, and roads near critical infrastructure. They collect detailed data on routes, businesses, and homes while undercutting American competitors on price. This is a familiar playbook: Chinese firms enter the United States at subsidized prices, capture market share, and embed themselves into daily American commerce. Last-mile logistics is just the most recent example.

Firms tied to the Chinese communists are expanding inside our borders and collecting granular data on Americans. They fall into three groups. The Chinese corporations include Zongteng Group, and its subsidiaries YunExpress and Cirro Logistics. The US-incorporated affiliates include the Zongteng-backed Gofo, and SpeedX, founded by a veteran of the Chinese freight industry to serve Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop. The other foreign carriers include the Canadian-incorporated UniUni, Chinese-backed, and the Indonesian, Tencent-backed, J&T Express.

The economic damage is significant. American last-mile delivery supports 1.5 million jobs and American 3PL operators pay the President's tariffs in full. But Chinese-owned 3PLs make a business out of helping their clients evade them through transshipment, undervaluation, and ghost importers of record, then undercut domestic firms with the savings. That is not competition. That is industrial displacement.

DOJ has the tools to address this conduct. I respectfully ask DOJ to review (1) the ownership and control structures behind Chinese-linked last-mile delivery and 3PL platforms operating in the United States, (2) the data they collect and the Chinese government's access to it, (3) whether their subsidized, predatory pricing violates federal antitrust law, and (4) whether these firms or their parent companies facilitate tariff evasion and customs fraud at industrial scale.

If we act now, we can minimize the damage and stop this Communist surveillance of our neighborhoods. I look forward to working with you on this matter.

Sincerely,

Tom Cotton
United States Senator

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