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Where Does Your T-Shirt Really Come From?

A stringent US ban on imports from China’s Xinjiang region that came into effect this week ratchets up the pressure on companies to prove their supply chains are free of forced labour.
A farmer picks cotton on a farm on the outskirts of Hami, Xinjiang Region. Overlayed with a view of lint cotton from Shihezi in Xinjiang at a railway freight station in Jiujiang in central China.
A stringent US ban on imports from China’s Xinjiang region that came into effect this week ratchets up the pressure on companies to prove their supply chains are free of forced labour. (BoF Collage/Getty Images)

As the US moves to crack down on goods that may be linked to forced labour in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, it is demanding fashion brands importing to the US show who made their clothes and the materials in them.

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