PHNOM PENH -- The garment industry's reliance on China for materials is presenting a major challenge as the U.S. "aggressively" cracks down on products with links to Xinjiang province, experts say.
Washington has introduced measures to tackle what it says is the use of forced labor in the Uyghur Muslim-majority region of China. Almost 1,000 clothing and footwear shipments into the U.S. have been seized by customs under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) since it came into force in June 2022, according to government data. Of those, less than 300 shipments have been released as of mid-October.
