A bill to require the Justice Department to establish a trade-crime task force, and to allow for parallel criminal and civil enforcement actions, passed the House Judiciary Committee unanimously. The bill, called the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Crimes Act, was sponsored by the leaders of the House Select Committee on China and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, another China committee member.
David Hampton, deputy executive director, Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Directorate at CBP, told an audience at the Victims of Communism's annual China Forum that, over the next two years, CBP will be "reinvigorating our efforts to pursue penalties" with a team that's dedicated to administering penalties related to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
During this week's Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) quarterly meeting on Sept. 18, the group's subcommittees offered updates on their activities between June, when COAC last met (see 2406270054), and September.
Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Trade Compliance partners in good standing may have access to a new benefit, CBP says: the use of a foreign-trade zone to store goods subject to possible forced labor enforcement action.
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The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet Sept. 18 remotely and in person in Washington, D.C., starting at 1 p.m. EDT, CBP said in a notice. Comments are due by Sept. 13.
Nearly $43 million worth of electronics equipment bound for the U.S. from India has been detained under Uyghur Force Labor Prevention Act since last October, according to CBP data, Reuters said in an Aug. 27 report. CBP's data doesn't parse out the types of goods within each category that were detained, but solar panels may have constituted the majority of the detained electronics equipment, the report quoted sources as saying.
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Sayari analysts, who say their company crunches 600 million shipment records, say that the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act has had more impact than British, German, Swiss, Canadian and French laws aimed at removing human rights abuses from supply chains.
Kharon has signed a contract with the DHS office that oversees the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List to provide it with access to Kharon’s ClearView risk analytics platform, Kharon said in a news release Aug. 21. Kharon said the deal will provide access to the platform for the DHS analysts who support the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force. Kharon signed a similar deal with CBP in 2023 (see 2310190049).