Glovemaker Supermax Corporation is hit by a US import ban after the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) yesterday issued a withhold release order (WRO) to prohibit imports from company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries Maxter Glove Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, Maxwell Glove Manufacturing Bhd and Supermax Glove Manufacturing.
Their products cannot the US market and the US Customs says this based on ‘reasonable information of forced labour in Supermax’s manufacturing operations’.
CBP’s investigations show “ample evidence” to conclude that Supermax and its subsidiaries produce gloves in violation of US trade law.
“With this WRO, the Biden-Harris administration continues to make clear that products made in whole or in part by forced labour will not be allowed into the US.”
“The Department of Homeland Security will continue to set an international standard for the elimination of the deplorable practice of forced labour. We will remove it from American supply chains,” Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N Mayorkas says in a CBP statement.
Supermax is the latest after Top Glove to face such a ban, but for Top Glove the ban was listed last month.
