President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) into law in December 2021. Beginning on June 21, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will apply a “rebuttable presumption” that all goods originating from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region violate an existing ban on the importation of goods made with forced labor into the … Continue Reading
Squire Patton Boggs has published its first edition of the Commodities & Shipping Group’s (CSG) Quarterly Update. The topic we chose to focus on for this publication is slavery in supply chains. The Global Survey Index reports over 45.8 million people are subject to modern slavery (26% of whom are children, and 55% are women … Continue Reading
