Tag Archives: Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

US Imposes Duties on Southeast Asia Solar Panel Makers Evading China Tariffs

To appreciate the scope of the issue, those countries account for nearly 80% of all U.S. solar panel supplies.… Continue Reading

Two China Based Companies Banned as a Result of Forced Labor

By Stuart Kaplow on August 6, 2023 Posted in ESG, Federal, Solar Panel

The moral equivalence of U.S. companies and individuals installing solar panels created with government-sponsored modern slavery to remedy the ills of climate change, has in the last year shifted sharply in favor of Americans doing the right thing for those in forced labor from Xinjiang. … Continue Reading

More Than 1,000 Shipments of Solar Panels Seized at the Border

By Stuart Kaplow on April 30, 2023 Posted in Environmental, ESG, Federal, Solar Panel, Uncategorized

Businesses Creating a Slave Free World… Continue Reading

UN Human Rights Assessment of Uyghurs by China Drives ESG

By Stuart Kaplow on September 4, 2022 Posted in ESG

We have blogged repeatedly that “the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor” is a key element, if not singularly the most important principle of a business’s practices. That point was driven home with the release last Wednesday, by The United Nations Human Rights Office assessment of human rights concerns in China’s Xinjiang … Continue Reading

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to be Enforced June 21

By Stuart Kaplow on June 12, 2022 Posted in Codes and Regulations, ESG, Federal, Solar Panel

Congress passed, and on December 23, 2021 President Biden signed into law, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The new law that will be enforced beginning June 21, 2022 has implications for imported cotton and tomatoes and most significantly for solar panels. The Act, codified at 22 U.S.C. §6901, establishes a rebuttable presumption that any … Continue Reading

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