…U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a Withhold Release Order against automobile tires manufactured in Serbia by Linglong International Europe D.O.O. Zrenjanin (Linglong). Effective immediately, CBP personnel at all U.S. ports of entry will detain shipments of these tires due to evidence reasonably indicating the use of forced labor in their production…

This WRO, the fifth in 2025 and the second in Fiscal Year 2026, was issued due to violations of 19 U.S.C. § 1307, the law prohibiting goods made with forced labor from entering the United States. When CBP has evidence indicating that imported goods are made by forced labor, the agency acts to detain those shipments through WROs…

This WRO is the result of a CBP investigation and review of information that Linglong manufactures automobile tires using forced labor. CBP analyzed the following supporting evidence: worker statements, photographs, employment contracts, focus group field notes, text message screenshots, open-source non-government organization reports, news media, and academic research.

Taken together, the evidence demonstrated that workers at Linglong are subject to nine International Labour Organization indicators of forced labor…The facts underlying these indicators show, by reasonable suspicion, that workers are engaged in forced labor …