UFLPA Sponsors Call for More from Canada & Mexico

Posted 9/26/24

Four Commissioners from the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released a letter to the trade representatives of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, urging robust implementation of existing forced labor import prohibitions in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and asking for greater cooperation to prevent goods denied in one country being re-exported to another within the USMCA.

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