Homeland Security Says NSC, DHS Will Assess Prevalence of Imports Made With Forced Labor
In a strategic action plan to “confront the full spectrum of Chinese threats” to the homeland, the Department of Homeland Security said it will work with intelligence agencies and the National Security Council to assess to what extent goods produced…
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by forced labor are imported. After that assessment, the report said, the government will discuss what it found with private industry. CBP recently put a withhold release order on all cotton grown in China's Xinjiang region (see 2101130034). The leading trade group for the apparel industry has said there is no cost-effective way to know where cotton in an item of clothing is from when the brand does not control the factory's purchases (see 2009170029). American Apparel and Footwear Association CEO Steve Lamar said Xinjiang cotton could be sent to factories in Bangladesh, Kenya, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Vietnam or Indonesia.