Five Questions, Five Answers: Is there Forced Labor in Your Supply Chain? Prevent Costly Import Detentions at the Border
The United States has added yet another customs tool in its ongoing work against forced labor in supply chains. Following on the heels of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act ("UFLPA") and an uptick in Withhold Release...more
It’s goes without saying, but I will say it anyway, the recent visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi certainly didn’t help the already strained relations much, but within her reasoning for defiance of Beijing,...more
It may come as a surprise to most businesses that some goods around the globe are still being made with forced labor at this moment in time. But unfortunately that is the case and decades-old laws are increasingly being...more
On 13 January 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a region-wide Withhold Release Order (WRO) prohibiting all imports of cotton and tomato products from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) in response...more
Trade tensions between the United States and China, coupled with a global pandemic, have had devastating effects on the fashion industry — highlighting the problem of reliance upon China as a major, if not sole, source of...more