Two dozen Members of Congress wrote to the SEC on Monday to ask the agency to mandate that online retailer SHEIN “certify via independent verification” that it does not use forced labor as a condition for its potential Initial Public Offering (IPO).
We’ve covered SHEIN at length on the blog; here’s a primer on the company’s litany of bad practices, and check out my podcast interview with Ayesha Barenblat of Remake that goes into more depth. One of the biggest concerns about SHEIN is that its products are made using Uyghur forced labor. And because SHEIN ships its items directly to consumers, the company is avoiding U.S. Customs and Border Protection enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which bans all imports from China’s Xinjiang region unless importers can definitively prove their goods aren’t made with forced labor.
