Lawmakers Call for More WROs on Xinjiang Province Exports
Members of Congress who are the Congressional-Executive Commission on China members asked the acting CBP commissioner to issue more withhold release orders for textiles or other goods made with forced labor in Xinjiang province, where about a million Uighur Muslims are held in internment camps. The senators and representatives noted that CBP did block the imports of Heitan Taida Apparel Company, and said that sent an important message, but much more should be done.
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"We ask that you provide us with a report that includes all the products made, wholly or in part, with forced labor from [Xinjiang] and a list of Chinese companies engaged in the introduction of such goods to global supply chains. If this report develops additional evidence that a wide array of goods are being made with prohibited forms of forced, slave, convict, or indentured labor, we ask that you publish a formal finding on the companies involved to ensure that U.S. consumers are not subsidizing egregious human rights abuses" in Xinjiang province, they wrote in a letter sent Oct. 31 to CBP.