House Committee Seeks 10 Answers From DHS on Uyghur Labor Law, Flags Labubu Dolls
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 3
House Committee Seeks 10 Answers From DHS on Uyghur Labor Law, Flags Labubu Dolls
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 3
Summary
A bipartisan House Select Committee asked DHS for a briefing on how it is enforcing the 2021 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, saying goods tied to Xinjiang may still be reaching U.S. consumers.
The letter raises 10 concerns, including how DHS and Customs and Border Protection are updating the UFLPA Entity List and tracing products back to forced-labor sources even when manufacturing shifts to countries such as Vietnam or Malaysia.
Lawmakers pointed to supply chains spanning steel, aluminum, textiles and silicon-carbon materials, and cited a New York Times report alleging cotton in popular Labubu dolls may be linked to forced labor.
DHS added 43 companies to the entity list in July, but Rep. Ro Khanna said the agency had gone about a year without action and should designate more firms to protect both human rights and U.S. industry.
Eight lawmakers — four Republicans and four Democrats — signed the request, underscoring how forced-labor enforcement has become a bipartisan trade, economic and national-security issue.