Forced Labor and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)-Enforcement and Compliance Update for Importers
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Speaker : ERIK AUTOR
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When : Thursday, August 08, 2024
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Time : 01 : 00 PM EST
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Erik Autor, is an international trade and custom attorney in Washington, DC with over thirty- years’ experience on trade law and policy in both government and in the private sector representing importing industries. He has also worked extensively over many years on issues involving forced labor, including Uzbek cotton, conflict minerals, blood diamonds, cocoa, Thai fishing, and, most recently on products produced by forced labor in the Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China with the objective of seeking viable solutions to complex social issues.
This webinar will provide a comprehensive discussion on the issue of forced labor particularly the UFLPA, why companies need to pay attention to this issue and some points on best compliance practices and options for importers to avoid enforcement actions and demonstrate due diligence in preventing products made with forced labor are not in their supply chains.
Areas Covered
- The background and history of U.S. law and policy on the prevention and interdiction of products made abroad by forced labor with a particular focus on the UFLPA
- The compliance challenges facing importers to ensure forced-labor products are not in their supply chain; and
- An update on the current situation on enforcement, the issue’s importance to the Biden Administration’s trade policy agenda, and how the issue fits within overall U.S.-China trade relations.
Who Should Attend
Managers to C-Level Executives and Company General Counsels.
Why Should You Attend
The compliance challenges and uncertainty surrounding forced labor and the UFLPA is having an impact on all industries and companies with global supply and value chains, even those outside China. At the same time, companies have become increasingly sensitive to a growing list of risk factors, including forced labor, that can adversely impact their brand reputation and global business operations. Therefore, the issue of forced labor has risen to the attention of the C-suite in many companies, and understanding the issue has become essential to the company's bottom lines.
Topic Background
Efforts to stop the practice of forced labor in foreign countries and to prevent imported products made with forced labor from entering the U.S. market have been going on for many years. In the past, this mainly affected importers of consumer products, such as apparel, extractive industries, such as gold mining and fishing, and agricultural products such as cocoa, and cotton. Most recently, the issue of forced labor was elevated with the Congressional passage of the UFLPA and the importance of the issue as part of the overall Biden Administration’s labor-focused trade policy. The UFLPA was a unique example of enforcement targeting mainly a region of one country, a presumption of forced labor that places the burden on the importer to rebut, potential effect on a wide range of products, and application throughout all tiers of the supply chain. That and stringent enforcement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have created considerable uncertainty and compliance challenges for U.S. importers.
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$160.00
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