Global fashion websites such as Shein may be selling clothes made by Uyghur slaves directly to American consumers by exploiting a loophole in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act that exempts packages worth less than $800 from inspection. The 2021 U.S. law banning imports made using Uyghur Slave Labor is also being weakened by “transshipments” of goods from China to third-countries that obfuscate their true origin, as well as by a lack of coordination with Canadian and Mexican authorities.

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