CBP to seize products of Chinese-owned company 'at all US ports of entry'

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced last week that, at “all U.S. ports of entry,” it would begin seizing all aluminum products manufactured by Kingtom Aluminio, a Chinese-owned company in the Dominican Republic.

Kingtom Aluminio was found to have used forced labor while manufacturing its products, violating federal law (19 U.S.C. § 1307). As a result, CBP is to restrict importing goods from any company that has its products “manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor, or/and indentured labor, including forced or indentured child labor.”