US bans imports from three Chinese firms for using North Korean labor

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US bans imports from three Chinese firms for using North Korean labor

Customs agency says it began detaining merchandise last month for violating 2017 law against items made by DPRK workers

Shreyas Reddy January 5, 2023

US bans imports from three Chinese firms for using North Korean labor

North Korean workers at a garment factory in the Rason Special Economic Zone in March 2019 | Image: NK News (March 6, 2019)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began detaining merchandise produced by three Chinese companies in early December after finding the companies used North Korean labor in violation of federal law, the agency has announced.

The CBP said in a press release last Tuesday that it started implementing the restrictions on items from Jingde Trading Ltd., Rixin Foods Ltd. and Zhejiang Sunrise Garment Group Co. Ltd. at all U.S. ports of entry starting Dec. 5.

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Shreyas Reddy

Shreyas Reddy is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter @shreyas_k_reddy.

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