U.S. allies appear committed to following Washington's lead banning forced labor goods from China's Xinjiang region, a senior U.S. official told Reuters on Monday, warning companies they could not maintain 'deliberate ignorance' about their supply chains.
A Uighur man sleeps during a sandstorm as he rides his horse cart delivering hay around the Paklamakan desert, some 100km east to Yecheng, in the region of Xinjiang in this April 5, 2008 REUTERS/Nir EliasWASHINGTON, July 18 - U.S. allies appear committed to following Washington's lead banning forced labor goods from China's Xinjiang region, a senior U.S. official told Reuters on Monday, warning companies they could not maintain "deliberate ignorance" about their supply chains.
"My sense is that this is moving. It's moving in Canada. It's moving in the European Union. It's moving really across the world, which is why my message to companies has been: 'You need to start taking this seriously'," said Lee, whose agency is part of a government task force directing UFLPA implementation.
The EU's focus on developing a mandatory due-diligence standard was a good starting point, Lee said, adding that Canada and Mexico were moving toward what would ideally become a "common North American standard" banning forced labor goods as part of their commitments under a trilateral trade agreement.
Under the law, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency enforces a "rebuttable presumption" that all goods from Xinjiang are made with forced labor and barred from import, unless it can be proven otherwise.
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