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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s (alleged) forced labour finding is the result of a month-long CBP investigation aimed at preventing goods made by modern slavery from entering US commerce,\u201d Troy Miller, the senior official performing the duties of the commissioner for US CBP, said in a statement released on the CBP official website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miller noted that the CBP would not tolerate foreign companies\u2019 exploitation of vulnerable workers to sell cheap, unethically-made goods to American consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The finding expands upon a Withhold Release Order (WRO) that CBP issued in July 2020. The WRO was based on reasonable but not conclusive information that multiple forced labour indicators exist in Top Glove\u2019s production process, including debt bondage, excessive overtime, abusive working and living conditions, and retention of identity documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Separately, Top Glove, in a statement, said its US counsels are liaising with representatives from the US CBP to obtain more clarity and information on CBP\u2019s recent Finding Information Document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the meantime, Top Glove had earlier submitted the report prepared by an independent international consultant, Impactt, to CBP for review.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Impactt was appointed by Top Glove in July 2020 to verify its labour practices. Impactt has since published a statement on March 9, 2021 confirming that as at January 2021, and considering the group\u2019s ongoing actions, these findings did not amount to systemic forced labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full statement by Impactt may be viewed at https:\/\/impacttlimited.com\/<\/a>impactt-statement-on-top-glove-status<\/a>\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At 9.09am, shares of Top Glove declined 3.37 per cent to RM4.88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n —\u00a0BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KUALA LUMPUR, March 30– The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has directed personnel at all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36.png",589,319,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36-300x162.png",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36.png",589,319,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36.png",589,319,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36.png",589,319,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36.png",589,319,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36.png",589,319,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36.png",589,319,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-30-at-12.09.36.png",589,319,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8903,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}