William & Mary Business Law Review
Abstract
With global trade growing every day and more products being imported from foreign countries, responsible sourcing of products is more important now than ever. Irresponsible importation of goods can lead to countries like the United States supporting human rights abuses abroad by allowing goods made with forced labor into their domestic markets. The Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act (UFLPA) has empowered the United States’ Customs and Border Protection to hinder the flow of goods made with Uyghur forced labor into the United States, but it has not been completely successful in preventing these goods from being sold in the United States. Congress considered expansions to the UFLPA to further deter the use of slave labor that adopts measures from previous attempts to reduce the use of forced labor. The prior use of these measures provides an opportunity to see how effective they might be in China and explore how the UFLPA can be expanded to other territories. If the United States expands the UFLPA, it could provide a framework to address the import of slave labor goods across the globe by demonstrating an effective means of prevention. However, the United States will have to tailor any such measures to the situation it is meant to address.
Repository Citation
Kaitlin Danielle Chang, Breaking the Chains: Lessons Learned from Anti-Slave Labor Laws and Their Applicability to Proposed Expansions to the UFLPA, 16 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 187 (2024), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmblr/vol16/iss1/5Included in
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