A bipartisan group of lawmakers called on the Trump administration Wednesday to slap additional tariffs on China over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang.

A bipartisan group of 24 senators and 19 representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Michael (Mike) Richard PompeoOvernight Defense: Pentagon redirects pandemic funding to defense contractors | US planning for full Afghanistan withdrawal by May | Anti-Trump GOP group puts ads in military papers Overnight Defense: House Democrats unveil stopgap spending measure to GOP opposition | Bill includes .6B for new subs | Trump issues Iran sanctions after world shrugs at US action at UN Navalny calls on Russia to return clothes he was wearing when he fell ill MORE, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Steven Terner MnuchinOn The Money: Powell, Mnuchin stress limits of emergency loans | House seeks to salvage vote on spending bill | Economists tell lawmakers: Kill the virus to heal the economy Economists spanning spectrum say recovery depends on containing virus Powell, Mnuchin stress limits of current emergency lending programs MORE and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Wilbur Louis RossTrump admin asks Supreme Court to fast-track excluding people in U.S. illegally from census Trump 'very happy' to allow TikTok to operate in US if security concerns resolved TikTok, WeChat to be banned Sunday from US app stores MORE to impose Global Magnitsky Act sanctions on Chinese officials for their role in the abuses.

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“We are disappointed with the Administration’s failure so far to impose any sanctions related to the ongoing systemic and egregious human rights abuses in Xinjiang. While the strong rhetoric condemning the Chinese government’s actions in the [Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region] from Vice President Pence and others is certainly welcomed, words alone are not enough,” the legislators wrote.

“Therefore, we urge you to impose Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act sanctions against Chen Quanguo, XUAR Communist Party Secretary and Politburo Member, and other XUAR officials and entities complicit in gross violations of human rights.”

The Magnitsky Act, signed into law in 2012, specifically allows the government to sanction foreign government officials implicated in human rights abuses.

The lawmakers also requested that the administration strengthen export controls to ensure that no U.S. companies are helping Beijing create "civilian surveillance or big-data predictive policing systems" used to monitor Uighurs.

They called upon the administration to send responses to a series of questions, including what engagement the State Department has had with like-minded partners on the issue and if any actions are planned at the United Nations to raise the profile of the abuses.

Beijing has defended its efforts as necessary to maintain national security and Uighurs are being detained but are going to “re-education camps” and given “free vocational training.”

The letter comes as the U.S. and China seek to mend a trade relationship that atrophied during a months-long trade war last year in which tariffs worth billions of dollars were slapped on a slew of goods.