In a Federal Register notice to be published on January 24, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, on behalf of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), is seeking input from the public on "how best to ensure that goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured

At a session of the UK House of Commons today, when answering a question from a Member of Parliament from the Labour Party about UK government policies on imports from Xinjiang, a high-level government trade official said that "a mix" of responses are needed and it "will

In the $768 billion [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/defense-spending-bill.html] U.S. defense spending bill that Congress recently passed (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, H.R.4350 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350]), there is a provision that prohibits the

Having previously passed slightly different versions of legislation designed to address forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (see here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/senate-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-bill/] and here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-house-of-representatives-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-bill/] ), the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have now reached a compromise and drafted legislation that

In a 428-1 vote yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed [https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021412?BillNum=H.R.1155] the "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1155/text]," which is intended to "[e]nsur[e] that goods made

At a December 2 House Ways and Means Committee hearing [https://waysandmeans.house.gov/legislation/hearings/trade-subcommittee-hearing-supporting-us-workers-businesses-and-environment] on "Supporting U.S. Workers, Businesses, and the Environment in the Face of Unfair Chinese Trade Practices," a number of witnesses testified, and members of Congress asked questions and made statements

There were two developments last week in the Canadian Senate related to imports of goods made with forced labor, with China specifically mentioned in both instances: (1) Amending existing law and (2) changing how the current law is implemented. First, Canadian Senator Leo Housakos of the opposition Conservative party introduced