About thirty Chinese companies are banned from exporting their products to the United States
The United States said Friday it had again expanded its blacklist banning the import of products from China’s Xinjiang region or suspected of being made by forced Uighur labor.
About 30 new Chinese companies have been accused of using raw materials or parts made or assembled by forced Uyghur labor, or of using such labor themselves to make their products.
This addition brings to 107 the number of companies now banned from exporting to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security announced.
“By adding these entities, the administration continues to demonstrate its commitment to ensuring that products made with the forced labor of Uyghurs or other ethnic or religious minorities in Xinjiang don’t enter the United States,” US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a statement.
In a separate statement, members of the parliamentary committee specializing in the activities of the Chinese Communist Party said they were pleased with this additional step, saying that American companies “should completely cut their ties with companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party and develop a supply chain free from forced labor”.
The Blocking Act, passed by the US Congress in December 2021, bans all imports of products from Xinjiang unless companies in the region can prove that their production doesn’t involve forced labor.
