CBP Ends WRO on New Imports of Bone Black From Brazil
CBP will no longer stop imports of bone black produced by Brazil's Bonechar Carvão Ativado do Brasil Ltda (Bonechar), the agency said in a Dec. 7 news release. The WRO change is effective Dec. 4, though imports of “bone black…
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produced by Bonechar prior to the effective date of the WRO modification remain inadmissible,” it said. The WRO on bone black, a powdered carbon product made from burned cow bones used in the water filtration and sugar refining industries, was issued in 2019 (see 1910010017). CBP made the change “after receiving detailed information about the labor conditions under which Bonechar produces bone black,” it said. There is enough evidence to show “Bonechar and an affiliated importer’s claim that the bone black from the company has not been produced using forced labor since at least August 2020,” CBP said. The agency said “the company addressed each of the five indicators of forced labor identified by CBP in a submission which incorporated data from worker interviews, a site visit, and document reviews.”