The US seized more apparel and shoes with banned Chinese cotton

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At the onset of the decade, the widespread repression of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur community in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang prompted action. Much of the world decided to stop doing business with the region guilty of a plethora of human rights violations. In December 2021, US president Joe Biden even signed legislation barring goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China from entering the US market. The on-paper ban hasn’t been so straightforward to implement on the ground, though. Finding partners that can provide equally abundant and similarly cheap...