‘Everything is forced labor’: What the future of U.S. textile trade enforcement looks  like

Nov 22, 2024

Brian Hoxie, director of the forced labor division at U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Directorate, says this so much he isn’t sure if it’s even a joke anymore. “I like to say that everything seems to be forced labor,” he said at the Apparel Importers Trade & Transportation Conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City last week. “It’s textiles, it’s de minimis, it’s just taking a pick of what product it is – there’s some kind of connection to forced labor.”

 

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