Soumaya Keynes

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263 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 26 Jul

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There are going to be complaints.

If I had to bet...

Oh, I don't want to bet.

I think these ones will last longer than the old lot.

This is a really hard area of trade law, right?

Because to be clear, it's not that the Trump administration is accusing us of using forced labour in the UK.

The Trump administration is accusing us of not working hard enough

to protect imports coming in from other countries using forced labor.

That's the complaint.

The problem is that, of course, when something comes across the border, there isn't a label saying, used forced labor.

It's really, really hard to detect.

There are certain methods that you can use if it comes from certain regions, certain areas where forced labour is particularly likely.

That can be used as evidence.

But the way that international supply chains work, it's just often very hard to know.

So the US's complaint is that we're not enforcing our rules carefully enough, right?

And so they'll point to cases, particular products that they've banned the importation of that we haven't acted as aggressively towards yet.

I think, honestly, the United States Trade Representative is quite a small office.

I don't know that they were doing fresh reporting, going out to places where forced labour is a concern.

This is an area where the US has been active in the past.

They were very active when it came to

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