China’s campaign of forced labor has been widely exposed and documented over the past year, and the U.S. government is now taking concrete efforts to address it.

On Monday, Customs and Border Protection issued withhold release orders on four Chinese companies and a Communist Party subsidiary that are known to use forced labor. The orders block any products made by these entities from entering the United States. //

We put out a business advisory with respect to doing business in the Xinjiang province and we put American businesses on notice and businesses around the world that if you want to keep importing into the United States, you really need to disentangle yourself from these slave labor practices. And businesses have begun to respond. That doesn’t mean they all have, but the ones that are slow on their feet are going to find their products seized at U.S. ports if they don’t make the adjustments needed to avoid entangling themselves from a business standpoint with Xinjiang slave labor.