Countries in the Five Eyes Alliance, plus Japan, have issued a joint declaration on non-market practices and trade related economic coercion that they say "undermine the functioning of and confidence in the rules-based multilateral trading system by distorting trade, investment, and competition and harming relations between countries."
CBP posted the following documents ahead of the June 14 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
DHS will add two companies, as well as eight subsidiaries of one of those companies, to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, according to a pre-publication notice released June 9.
DHS will add two companies, as well as eight subsidiaries of one of those companies, to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, according to a pre-publication notice released June 9.
Once CBP submits its proposal for a new customs modernization law, National Foreign Trade Council Senior Director of International Supply Chain Policy John Pickel says, Congress will dig into how they want to shape the bill. It’s not an easy task to produce a bill with a balance between enforcement and trade facilitation, but that’s Congress’ intention, he said.
Mexico's ban on the import of goods made with forced labor went into effect three weeks ago, so if importers whose goods were detained by CBP under suspicion of forced labor wanted to re-export to Mexico, that avenue is closed, said Eduardo Sotelo Cauduro, a partner with Sanchez DeVanny, a Mexican law firm.
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Customs modernization legislation should not just offer new tools for CBP to stop unlawful trade is the argument from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a dozen other groups involved in importing and exporting. The groups have 18 asks, laid out in a detailed five-page paper they sent to the leaders of the committees that will shape the bill.
CBP identified 3,605 shipments valued at $816.5 million for "forced labor concerns" in FY 2022, including "1,592 shipments valued at nearly $500 million" identified under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), the agency said in its Trade and Travel Report for the fiscal year. The report, which was released on June 1, CBP enforced 54 active withhold release orders and nine active findings, which includes six withhold resale orders and two new findings issued this year, the agency said
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) Law Center addressed common concerns about Uyghur forced labor in a new evidence brief published May 31. Among the topics addressed, the paper focuses on topics such as the ethics of withdrawing from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), supply chain tracing, sourcing, auditing, certification, attestations and codes of conduct. The paper focuses on answering frequently answered questions about the topics to address the concerns.