A broad coalition of industry and labor groups, NCTO has sent a letter to House and Senate leadership urging support for the Import Security and Fairness Act (included in the broader House America Competes Act), which aims to stop China from exploiting the de minimis threshold that allows imports valued under $800 to come into the United States without paying duties and taxes, bypassing U.S. Customs inspections and providing a backdoor to Chinese goods produced with forced labor.
The coalition sent the letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), urging the leaders to strongly support and prioritize the provision in the underlying China bill. The letter emphasized on the following points: US employment in the textile supply chain was 530,000 in 2020. It imported apparels and textiles worth $64.4 billion in 2020. Its exports of fiber, textiles and apparel valued $25.4 billion in 2020.
