On 12 February, Sandler Travis Rosenberg reported that, following the issuance of an import detention order on all cotton products from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region due to concerns about the use of forced labour there, a letter from 5 US trade associations calls on Congress to take specific steps to ensure effective enforcement of this order. In issuing a withhold release order, US Customs and Border Protection said importers are responsible for ensuring that the products they are attempting to import do not exploit forced labour at any point in their supply chains, including the production or harvesting of the raw material.
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