Robert Silvers, an undersecretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, comments on new rules that came into force from Tuesday blocking imports from China’s Xinjiang region. The assumption, notes the Wall Street Journal, is that goods produced in Xinjiang may have been made with forced labour. The burden of proof is now on the importer to demonstrate that this is not the case.
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