Empowering U.S. companies to self-assess, plan ahead, and manage risk
SourcingStrong is a tool that aims to equip American companies of all sizes to manage their supply chains by prioritizing American labor standards. It offers practical guidance, including examples such as supplier assessments and legal checks, which help companies better identify risks, act early, and safeguard their operations. SourcingStrong helps reduce exposure to foreign labor abuses, seeks to strengthen companies' resilience, support fair competition, and help prevent a race to the bottom that disadvantages U.S. businesses and workers. Learn more and explore the steps toward a labor due diligence system below.
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At a minimum, every company’s code of conduct and audit tools should include the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, which are considered the minimum enabling rights people need to defend and improve their rights and conditions at work.
Under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, business enterprises are responsible for respecting human rights, including avoiding causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities. This resource includes examples of laws and regulations concerning responsible business conduct and human rights.
Withhold Release Orders (WROs), issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), direct CBP’s Port Directors at ports of entry to detain a shipment of goods. CBP can detain any shipment when it has reason to believe that the goods (or their inputs) were made with forced labor, forced child labor, or prison labor under Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1307).
SourcingStrong helps U.S. companies of all sizes strengthen their labor due diligence systems to prevent and address the risks of labor abuses in their supply chains abroad and stay ahead of costly risks. With U.S. laws prohibiting the importation - as well as federal procurement- of goods made with forced labor, including forced or indentured child labor, businesses that fail to assess their supply chains risk not only reputational damage but also losing access to the American market.
Companies have a variety of motivations for implementing due diligence, including managing legal, reputational, operational and other risks described below. Promoting a labor due diligence system ensures voluntary self-assessment of risks of labor abuses and efforts to mitigate them are embedded up and down a company’s supply chain.
