In this podcast episode, GRIP’s US content manager Julie DiMauro, spoke with Laura Rabinowitz, shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP in New York and an expert in international trade law.

Laura offered some considerations regarding how companies can best navigate the compliance challenges presented by this forced labor law, how we got here, and the effect it has on their businesses.

We discussed:

• Some background to the issue of forced labor in the US;
• The document onslaught that is a part of complying with the mandate;
• The due diligence effort that goes beyond the traditional scope lawyers have seen before;
• The impact on tier two, tier three, and even tier four suppliers;
• The effect the law has had on the cost to get the goods into the US, among other costs; and
• The international landscape, and the consistent messaging to companies about goods from this region.

A transcript of the podcast is available here.