FORCED LABOR CBP: Should Improve Communication to Strengthen Trade Enforcement.

INTERNATIONAL economic relations; U.S. Customs & Border Protection; COMMERCIAL products; FORCED labor; SHIPMENT of goods

The article discusses the efforts taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to strengthen trade enforcement. Topics include CBP may issue a withhold release order (WRO) when information reasonably but not conclusively indicates that merchandise produced with forced labor is likely to be, imported into the United States; CBP may detain shipments of merchandise pursuant to WROs at U.S. ports of entry, unless an importer provides sufficient evidence that it was not made with forced labor.