US Escalates Search for Forced Labor Ties in Textiles From China

The US Department of Homeland Security is increasing scrutiny on textile imports as worries over forced labor in China hang over the apparel industry.

The department plans to expand a list of entities that it says use forced labor from the Xinjiang region of China, and is also increasing Customs and Border Protection package inspections to root out violations of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and other laws. The moves demonstrate a renewed effort to give more bite to the two-year-old law on Uyghur labor, which assumes any product made with goods even partially sourced from Xinjiang involves forced ...