Investigators want to know if the subway car shells were built using forced labor in China.
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Federal agents have detained eight new MBTA Red and Orange Line subway car shells at the Port of Philadelphia while investigators probe whether they were built using forced labor in China.
According to a WBUR report, the shells were manufactured by China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) and assembled in Springfield. In June, Federal Customs and Border Protection agents flagged the shells under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which bans U.S. imports linked to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region…