Labor Rights
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            Canada Seizes Shipment of Chinese Goods Due To Forced Labor Concerns
                The Toronto Globe and Mail reported
[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-seizes-goods-made-with-forced-labour-from-china-mps-urge-more/] 
that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has seized a shipment of goods
from China that were made with forced labor, although the details on the seizure
were not disclosed.
The report states that a CBSA spokesperson said
            
        Latest WTO Fisheries Subsidies Negotiating Text Addresses Forced Labor
                As we reported
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/two-recent-biden-administration-actions-against-forced-labor-in-fishing/] 
in June, on May 26 the Biden administration put forward a proposal
[https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/IssueAreas/Trade%20Organizations/WTO/US.Proposal.Forced.Labor.26May2021.final%5B2%5D.pdf] 
in the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations that raised the issue of
            
        Canadian Retail Company Pulls Products Made In China Due to Forced Labor Concerns
                In response to a story
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-canadian-brands-forced-labour-1.6236820] 
by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Canadian company Reitmans
has pulled certain products from its shelves due to concerns that they were made
in a Chinese factory that used forced labor from North Korea. In its
            
        GOP Senators Send Letter to U.S. International Development Finance Corporation on Solar Panels and Forced Labor
                On November 4, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Rick Scott
(R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Jerry Moran (R-KS) sent
a
letter
[https://www.rubio.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=E6762115-790A-42E5-AED1-EE6854475E5B] 
to Acting Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International
            
        Chinese Solar Panel Maker Responds To Reports of Blocked Shipments
                Tensions continue over allegations of the use of forced labor in Chinese solar
panel production and blocked shipments to the United States as a result. U.S.
Customs officials have been looking into this issue closely in recent
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/new-u-s-actions-related-to-forced-labor-in-xinjiang-in-the-solar-sector/] 
 months
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/chinese-solar-companys-products-held-up-by-u-s-customs/]
, and
            
        Members of Congress Press U.S. Customs on Cotton Imports Tied to Forced Labor
                Yesterday, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and
Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), who are all part of
the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) [https://www.cecc.gov/],
sent a letter
[https://www.rubio.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=4CCECC26-AC84-49EE-85F6-64FE12376347]
            
        Hong Kong Textile Company Fights Inclusion on "Entity List"
                A Hong Kong textile company has gone to U.S. court to challenge its inclusion on
the "Entity List
[https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/lists-of-parties-of-concern/entity-list]
" maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce. While its request for a
preliminary injunction was recently rejected by