U.S. senators wrote a letter to the chief executive of Shein, a Chinese online fast fashion retailer, raising concerns about whether the company made use of cotton sourced from China’s Xinjiang region—a place notorious for pushing forced labor among Uyghur minorities.
“We are concerned that American consumers may be inadvertently purchasing apparel made in-part with cotton grown, picked, and processed using forced labor. We are also concerned that Shein may be pursuing a strategy to price shipments under de minimis value to minimize exposure to U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection to avoid scrutiny under Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930,” said the Feb. 9th letter by Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)….