ASOS
ASOS’s January 2020 Modern Slavery Statement stated that it had not discovered any connection with the region in ASOS’s supply chain, but acknowledged that risks remained due to Xinjiang’s role in China’s overall cotton output.
In late 2020, ASOS committed to taking all the steps laid out in the Call to Action of the Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labour.
Following a request from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons, in February 2021 ASOS released a detailed response outlining the company’s approach to sourcing from Xinjiang. This included undertaking a review of Tiers 1-3 of its supply chain and taking action to ensure that there was no manufacturing linked to Xinjiang at these levels, as well as working with the industry and the Better Cotton Initiative to improve traceability from product to farm in order to gain visibility of Tiers 4 and 5 of its supply chain in Xinjiang.
In November 2021, ASOS was named in a report from the Helena Kennedy Centre as one of many international brands whose supply chains were linked to textile companies known to source cotton from Xinjiang. In its response to the findings, ASOS reaffirmed its commitment to identifying and preventing the use of forced labour and its ongoing work to establish greater visibility of its fabric supply chain.