Open Letter to CBP on Trade Data Transparency

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Human Trafficking Legal Center

Transparentem joined a group of 38 civil society organizations and advocates in calling for Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection Chris Magnus and the US Government to reject a proposal to hide import data from the public.

We strongly oppose corporate efforts to eviscerate supply chain transparency. The trajectory should be for more transparency, not less. Journalists, human rights and workers’ rights groups, and others use shipping data to facilitate Customs and Border Protection enforcement against forced labor in supply chains.

Read the letter here: https://htlegalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Open-Letter-on-Trade-Data-Transparency-FINAL.pdf

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