Toothless by design.
On Jan. 1, the Forced Labour and Supply Chain Reporting Law, which aims to curb the importation of goods made through forced labour, came into effect. The law is toothless. It merely requires companies to report on their efforts to keep forced labour out of their supply chains.
The U.S. Congress and the Biden administration, in contrast, passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021. That law compels anyone wishing to import products from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to prove that forced labour was not used.
Since its implementation in June, 2022, more than 6,000 shipments entering the United States have been reviewed under the new law, and more than 2,500 denied entry.
But according to Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, not one shipment from China has been denied entry into Canada on the same grounds.
It sends the right signal. That is Canada in a nutshell. Empty posturing, a nothing.
Well, those damned Uyghurs, they supported the Freedom Convoy you know. Nothing but trouble-makers.
And, in what will doubtless turn out to be related theater: https://globalnews.ca/news/9488207/canada-china-research-crackdown/
I worked in Purchasing and then in Compliance with regards to Purchasing before my retirement several years ago. BTW the DOD prohibits coerced labor and child labor
In it’s supply chain. The compliance protocol is almost the same as the one for ferreting out Conflict Minerals. Declaration of compliance are passed upstream from sub assemblers, to processors, to raw material sources. It’s only as reliable as the integrity of the responders. It does create nonproductive make work jobs, though.
My pet peeve is the same people obsessed with the “slavery” of 200-500 years ago turn a blind eye to the history of slavery, by whatever label, and the slavery that riddles the supply chains of today, and is component of many of the products we use everyday.
It’s not a guarantee, but the best way to avoid it, is buy products made in Western nations.
Correction, guess my edit didn’t take. Should read Requests for Declarations of compliance are passed up the supply chain til it reaches raw materials and the Declarations of compliance pass back down that chain to the originator.
Darnit! Where’s that invisible upvote button?
Every point is spot on, Exasperated, and people should pay particular attention to your observation that compliance paperwork is nonvalue-added make-work that only adds cost. Compliance paperwork costs are passed on to the consumer.
We pay. It’s a hidden tax and a welfare payment, though the recipient has to show up somewhere to get the money. And no one ever reads the @$#! reports anyhow.
Why does it only cover one region? shouldn’t it cover all regions where forced labor or slavery may occur.
I believe it does cover the entire planet. No slave, or child labour. That’s why it needs to be “toothless”, otherwise how will we import materials for EV batteries the government is subsidizing Chrysler and VW to build.
U.S. customs law has prohibited importing goods produced by certain categories of labor since the end of the nineteenth century. Beginning in 1890, the United States prohibited imports of goods manufactured with convict labor. In 1930, Congress expanded this prohibition in Section 307 of the Tariff Act to include any (not just manufactured) products of forced labor.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11360
Because that’s what justins paymasters in China decreed. It is only optics, so who cares?
“The law is toothless.”
Everting that the idiot does, of course, comes from the cabal that’s running him. The law, the feminine hygiene in men’s toilets and variety and sundry of same are for drama purposes.
The actual meaning of the ‘law’ is completely irrelevant.
Have you noticed, every time the idiot comes out of a plane, waving and sunny smile, it’s like a triumph as though the idiot has done something monumental.
Yeah …. monumental idiot.
Vito: I understand when Trudeau comes out of the plane NO ONE is there but he waves and smiles like their are millions of people. Like you said Drama Purposes! Trudeau is so conceited, he doesn’t realize their are many Canadians that actually Hate him!!