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US approach to preventing imports of goods made using forced labour

At a Glance 27-01-2022

In recent years, the US has taken a range of steps to strengthen US legislation and enforcement practice from a human rights, trade and foreign policy perspective in the fight against the widespread use of forced labour in the increasingly complex global supply chains of the 21st century. A prominent example is the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act of 2021. It bans imports from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the north-west of China, except where importers can rebut the presumption that all goods from this region are made with forced labour. Enforcing the law can put businesses between a rock and a hard place, given the XUAR's central role in a host of global supply chains and Chinese retaliation and economic coercion.