To find out more, I went to Freeport, Maine, to talk to Eileen Messina, the manager of the British-imports store just across from L. L. Bean.

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"We check our factories are compliant, " says Stefan Strandlund, country manager for UK-based Wilson Imports, which works for several British brands.

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