CBP Posts Fact Sheet on Forced Labor Import Ban
CBP provided some details on the recent changes to the law that prohibits imports of goods made by forced labor in a fact sheet (here). The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 repealed a "consumptive demand" exemption to…
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the ban on imports made by forced labor (see 1602260049). CBP will next "amend the regulations at 19 CFR § 12.42(b), which require certain information pertaining to consumptive demand, in order to comport with the updated law," it said. "CBP depends and acts on information," the agency said in the fact sheet. "CBP encourages anyone with reason to believe that merchandise produced by forced labor is being, or is likely to be imported into the United States, to communicate his or her belief to any U.S. port director or the commissioner of CBP." The agency recently issued its first withhold orders in over a decade related to forced labor (see 1603310034).