Mexico is only USMCA country not to investigate forced labor; citizen request for action rejected

January 24, 2024 | Empower

For Louisa Greve, global director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, an organization dedicated to defending the human rights of the Uyghur community in China, the evidence of forced labor in Xinjiang is so strong that it is safe for importers to assume that a product with inputs from that region is likely to have used forced labor.

“This is explicit in the U.S. Law, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, but Canada and Mexico also banned the import of forced labor and must pay special attention to anything with Xinjiang inputs. So, in fact, investigation is necessary and certainly [when it comes to] high risk products, surveillance equipment is the number one example,” she commented.

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