Industry panel: UFLPA guidance ignores ‘many practical recommendations’

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has not provided sufficient clarity to importers about a new effort to prevent entry of goods made with forced labor, according to a panel of industry advisers who believe the agency’s guidance ignores recommendations made over the years by industry to address the issue. “Clarity from CBP to U.S. importers is needed, as is cooperation, if we are to achieve our shared aims of eradicating forced labor,” the Forced Labor Working Group, a sub-panel of...