WASHINGTON: Lawmakers in Washington have proposed a ban on most imports from China’s Xinjiang region, charging that goods produced by Uighur forced labourers were easily making their way into the United States.
Representative Jim McGovern, a Democrat who leads the Congressional-Executive Commission on China – which looks at human rights – said that witnesses, surveillance photos and leaked documents all showed the existence of forced labour. The act would ban the import of any goods from Xinjiang unless US Customs and Border Protection has “clear and convincing evidence” that no forced labour was involved.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said at a regular press briefing Thursday that the US should “stop using the human rights issue to interfere in China’s internal affairs.”The commission also released an accompanying report Wednesday said it had seen “credible reports” that goods involving forced labour have come into the United States, including textiles, cell phones, computer hardware, shoes and tea.
The association covers companies that were also listed as touched by forced labour from Xinjiang, including shoemakers Adidas and Nike. Of the 10 billion garments imported each year into the United States, around 20% are believed to contain at least some material from Xinjiang, Nova said at a panel of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
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