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To provide relevant and timely information in supply chain and corporate responsibility to the Spanish-speaking automotive community, AIAG launched a new e-newsletter this week for members in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking areas. you can subscribe to receive this free newsletter here. Once you are logged in, you can select the newsletter titled "Boletín Informativo de la Cadena de Suministro y Responsibilidad Corporativa" to subscribe.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Brazil’s Customs Authority Receita Federal today signed an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA). This MRA builds on other agreements between CBP and the Government of Brazil and ensures coordination for each nation’s supply chain security as well as efforts in combating customs and trade offenses.

Forced labor has been a consistent topic in the supply chain world for years. As a result, there is a wealth of information regarding forced labor and the initiatives taken globally to act preventatively. There are multiple indicators of forced labor, including isolation, restriction of movement, withholding of wages, deception, excessive overtime, and intimidation. Many statutes address forced labor, including:

• USMCA
• Trafficking Victims Protection Act
• Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020
• Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act
• Countering Americas Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
• Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

Ford is re-writing supply chain management! Led by the organization’s Global Director of Supply Chain Strategy & Risk, Jackie Watt, our opening presentation at this year’s Supply Chain + Trade Compliance Summit on November 3^rd will explore Ford’s focus on future initiatives and strategies, including the acceleration of the autonomous vehicle market.

Led by Carlos R. Rodriguez from the Office of Trade at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), our 2-hour virtual “ACE Reporting Demonstration for Export” and “ACE Reporting Demonstration for Import” courses provide you with the skills and knowledge to navigate and take advantage of the ACE Reports tool.

The focus of this year’s summit is “the future,” and what’s on the horizon for the automotive supply chain. Attendees will have the rare opportunity to meet the changemakers, innovators, and leaders that drive new technologies that may sound like science fiction, but are already starting to show up everywhere – from the production line to behind the wheel.

MMOG/LE – the Global Materials Management Operational Guidelines/Logistical Evaluation – has long been an industry proven and trusted resource, supporting organizations’ efforts to improve supply chain efficiency and accuracy while reducing costs, errors and waste.

Human trafficking victims are often held in slave-like conditions and forced to work in the sex trade or other servitude. One international organization estimated about 25 million people were trafficked in 2016.

CTPAT has embarked on a journey over the previous four years to reinvigorate Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Trade Compliance efforts. In close collaboration with private industry and best practices put forth by international trade groups, such as the World Customs Organization (WCO), CTPAT has established a program that is equipped to be the global standard for Trade Compliance.

ILAB publishes three reports on international child labor and forced labor that serve as valuable resources for research, advocacy, government action and corporate responsibility. These reports are The Department of Labor's Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor; the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor; and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor. Each of these reports has a distinct mandate, focus and set of implications, but taken collectively, they document the current situation of child labor, forced labor and forced child labor around the world.