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It's come to my attention that a veteran-owned company called Nine Line Apparel, which prides itself

on ethically sourced products, recently decided to trust but verify their supplier's

certifications that the cotton they were using originated in Central America rather than in China.

So they had their supposedly clean textile imports professionally tested.

It turned out that slave-produced fabric from China was mixed in and passed off as Central American cotton.

Nine line apparel did the right thing, got rid of all that material, and they reported it to

customs and border protection, offering to give them all the evidence they

needed from their professional testing facility, but unfortunately CBP decided

not to follow up.

They directed Nine Line Apparel to submit a complaint to a generic email box which was not replied to.

When Nine Line Apparel CEO then followed up by calling CBP directly, CBP told him that enforcing

this act, this act's ban on slave-produced textiles and other fabric is not one of their top

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