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Today, June 21, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act ("UFLPA") comes into effect. It is the latest – and perhaps strongest – tool in the belt of U.S. regulatory and enforcement agencies to combat forced labor.
Retail giant Reitmans brought more than 100 shipments of clothing into Canada from a Chinese factory suspected of secretly using North Korean forced labour, a months-long CBC Marketplace investigation has found. The retailer says it has stopped placing new orders with the facility
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On March 5, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") issued a ruling that denied a protest from Dandong Huayang that clothing made at its Chinese factory was not produced by North Korean employees. The clothing in question was seized by CBP on December 23, 2020, under the authority of the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ("CAATSA"), which prohibits goods mined, produced, or manufactured by North Korean citizens and nationals from importation into the United States. CBP requested documentation of Dandong Huayang's HR records – how employees are recruited, copies of
According to documentation seen by the Guardian, the order then went through a Chinese trading company before part of it was subcontracted to Dandong Huayang Textiles and Garments Co Ltd, a large garment factory in Dandong, which shares some of its orders with a branch factory. Both factories appear to be using workers from North Korea. There is no indication that the DHSC or Unispace Global Ltd knew that North Korean labour could be present in its PPE supply chains. Unispace Global Ltd did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the Guardian’s findings. The shipment to the UK represents just a fraction of the PPE made by factories in Dandong which appears to use North Korean workers. In April 200,000 sterile coveralls landed in Bari, Italy, in boxes marked with Dandong Huayang’s distinctive branding. A distributor in South Africa advertised two million protective suits from the same company and smaller orders were found in the US, Germany, South Korea and Japan.