The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, with support from the Fund, documented how Vans, The North Face and Timberland continued sourcing materials from a Fulgent Sun Group factory in Vietnam while Fulgent Sun’s China subsidiary was tied to Xinjiang labor transfers. Using geotagged social videos, state-media records and trade data, TBIJ showed Uyghur and other minorities working at the company well after it told authorities its last Xinjiang worker left and that US imports from the plant ceased.
Investigation suggests US brands skirting forced-labor laws to use goods produced in China
