The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday that would block the import of all products from China’s northwestern region, where at least 1 million Uyghurs and ethnic minorities are being held in secretive “political reeducation” camps. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan measure, would create a “rebuttable presumption” assuming goods manufactured in Xinjiang are made with forced labor and therefore banned under the 1930 Tariff Act, unless otherwise certified by U.S. authorities. In a statement, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who introduced the measure alongside Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), said that its advancement will send a strong message to Beijing “and any international company that profits from forced labor in Xinjiang … no more.” The United States would “not turn a blind eye” to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) “crimes against humanity,” nor “allow corporations a free pass to profit from those horrific abuses,” Rubio added. The …
US Senate Passes Bill To Ban All Xinjiang Goods Over CCP’s Rights Abuse
July 15, 2021
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