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KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized a shipment of 3.97 million nitrile disposable gloves from Malaysia s Top Glove Corp Bhd estimated to be worth $518,000, on indications they were made by forced labor, it said Wednesday.
CBP on March 29 issued a forced labor finding based on evidence of multiple forced labor indicators in the world s largest medical glove maker s production process.
It had initially banned products from two of Top Glove s subsidiaries last July, but extended the ban to all of the manufacturer s products made in Malaysia in March.
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 09:04 AM MYT
A worker at a production line in Top Glove factory in Shah Alam August 26, 2020. Reuters pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 The US Customs and Border Protection has seized a shipment of 3.97 million nitrile disposable gloves from Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp Bhd estimated to be worth US$518,00 (RM2.1 million), on indications they were made by forced labor, it said Wednesday.
CBP on March 29 issued a forced labor finding based on evidence of multiple forced labor indicators in the world’s largest medical glove maker’s production process.
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KUALA LUMPUR The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized a shipment of 3.97 million nitrile disposable gloves from Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp Bhd estimated to be worth $518,000, on indications they were made by forced labor, it said Wednesday.
CBP on March 29 issued a forced labor finding based on evidence of multiple forced labor indicators in the world’s largest medical glove maker’s production process.
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It had initially banned products from two of Top Glove’s subsidiaries last July, but extended the ban to all of the manufacturer’s products made in Malaysia in March.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seized a shipment of 3.97 million nitrile disposable gloves from Malaysia s Top Glove Corp Bhd estimated to be worth US$518,000 (RM2.13mil), on indications they were made by forced labour, it said Wednesday (May 5).
CBP on March 29 issued a forced labour finding based on evidence of multiple forced labour indicators in the world s largest medical glove maker s production process.
It had initially banned products from two of Top Glove s subsidiaries last July, but extended the ban to all of the manufacturer s products made in Malaysia in March.
The indicators included debt bondage, excessive overtime, abusive working and living conditions, and retention of identity documents, the CBP said in a statement.
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FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, a worker inspects disposable gloves at the Top Glove factory in Shah Alam on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia s Top Glove Corp., the world s largest rubber glove maker, said Wednesday, May 5, 2021, it hopes to swiftly end a U.S. ban on its products due to allegations of forced labor after one of its shipment was seized at a U.S. port. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)