Section 301 Beyond Tariffs: Supply Chain Compliance & U.S. Market Access [GeXPs26-0727EN]
Beyond Tariffs: How Section 301 and Forced-Labor Enforcement Are Reshaping U.S. Market Access For exporters, manufacturers, and U.S. importers, tariff schedules are no longer the only market-access checkpoint. Section 301 now reaches beyond traditional tariff disputes into investigations concerning forced-labor import controls, while CBP separately enforces forced-labor prohibitions, origin rules, recordkeeping requirements, and anti-circumvention controls. These regimes are legally distinct, but they increasingly converge at the operational level: companies must know the tariff treatment, map the supply chain, verify origin, and produce reliable evidence when questioned. Executive takeaway U.S. market access increasingly depends on evidence, not assumptions. A company may understand the applicable tariff rate and still face delay, detention, exclusion, or reassessment if it cannot substantiate product origin, raw-material lineage,...