NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Customs agents seized a 13-ton shipment of Chinese hair products in Newark on Thursday that may have been made using forced child labor and imprisonment.
The extensions and wigs worth more than $800,000 were found in a shipment on June 17.
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They came from a company in China that had a nationwide hold placed on its products by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Officials suspect the company uses forced labor, child labor or prison labor.
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The Trump Administration has been urging U.S. companies to rid their supply chain of goods linked to human rights abuses.
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