Submission to the Consultation on Measures to Strengthen Canada’s Forced Labour Import Ban

November 15, 2024

The Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region acknowledges Canada’s ban on the import of goods produced by forced labour under the Customs Tariff in July 2020 and welcomes the commitments made in the 2023 and 2024 budgets to address Uyghur forced labour in supply chains. In order to meet these commitments, the government of Canada must strengthen its efforts to prohibit the import of forced labour-made goods on the whole and implement mechanisms that more effectively address products made with state-imposed forced labour.

This submission outlines two actions that the government should prioritise to address state-imposed forced labour: a) establishing a rebuttable presumption that products made in part or in whole in the Uyghur Region are made with forced labour, and b) regional and sector-specific forced labour import bans in cases of state-imposed forced labour.