Senate passes bill barring imports from China’s Xinjiang region unless businesses prove they were produced without forced labor, the latest in a series of US penalties over China’s alleged abuses of ethnic and religious minorities in the western region.
Thursday targeting several Chinese biotech and surveillance companies, and government entities, for their actions in Xinjiang., after months of the White House declining to take a public stand on an earlier version of the legislation.. That includes widespread reports by rights groups and journalists of forced sterilization and large detention camps where many Uyghurs allegedly are compelled to work in factories.
As in the House earlier this week, the sweeping import ban passed the Senate with overwhelming approval from Democrats and Republicans. Psaki, in her statement Tuesday night, cited import controls, sanctions, diplomatic initiatives and other measures that the Biden administration had already taken targeting forced labor from Xinjiang.
The legislation requires government agencies to expand their monitoring of the use of forced labor by China’s ethnic minorities. Crucially, it creates a presumption that goods coming from Xinjiang are made with forced labor. Businesses will have to prove that forced labor played no part in a product to bring it into the United States.
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