The US Department of Homeland Security Tuesday announced that it is ramping up its forced labor enforcement focus on the aluminum, PVC and seafood industries.
The new high priority sectors are part of the department’s increased attention on forced labor in China in conjunction with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a two-year-old law that assumes any product made with materials sourced from the Xinjiang region involves forced labor unless a company can prove otherwise.
Other products the agency considers as high priorities include apparel, cotton, polysilicon, and tomatoes.
The department has also been broadening a list of entities companies ...
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