The latest round of withhold release orders (WRO) issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection involves one of the most pervasive soft commodities used in retail: cotton. According to the End Uyghur Forced Labour Coalition, one in five cotton garments sold globally contains fiber or yarn sourced from the Xinjiang region.
But while direct shipments from banned Hefei Bitland to Lenovo and Asus can be easily tracked, it’s the indirect shipments of items containing cotton along the intra-Asia trade...
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