House passes bill blocking imports of products produced by forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region
CNNCNN — A bill that will prevent the US from importing goods produced using forced labor by Uyghurs and other minority Muslim populations in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China passed the House on Wednesday evening. The legislation requires President Joe Biden to provide a list of individuals responsible for forced labor of these groups, including “any official of the government of the People’s Republic of China,” and to impose economic sanctions on them, the House version of the bill states. “Now, going back to the broader issue, everyone here is in favor of this bill, and everyone here is against slave labor of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, and the only impediment is some House rule because this theoretically raises revenue, which it doesn’t, then they should just pass the House version of the bill and send it here,” Rubio told reporters last week. The provision prevents Department of Defense funds from being used to buy any “products mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part by forced labor” in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, the bill states.
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