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Regulatory case

US Customs and Border Protection and Uniqlo

Authority: US Customs and Border Protection
Case number: Not published
Filed or opened: January 2021
Organization: Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.
Current stage: Ruling dated 10 May 2021 upholding the detention.
Outcome: Detention upheld. No court challenge found.

Decisions and steps

10 May 2021CBP finds the documents insufficient to show the shirts were not made in part with forced labour^S1

Claims this case bears on

Supported63
US Customs and Border Protection blocked a shipment of Uniqlo shirts at the Port of Los Angeles in January 2021 and ruled on 10 May 2021 that the company had not shown the shirts were free of forced labour.
Press report, May 20213 records citedProduct claims
Unresolved44
Fast Retailing said in July 2021 that none of its production partners were in Xinjiang and in May 2023 that there is no forced labour in its supply chains.
Company statement, 17 May 20234 records citedProduct claims

Sources

S1Tier C U.S. Blocked Uniqlo Shirts on Xinjiang Forced-Labor ConcernsBloomberg (via BloombergQuint). Press report. Not shown. Cites a CBP ruling of 10 May 2021.Reports the detention, the CBP reasoning and the company response. It does not show a ruling number or a byline.