China probes U.S. fashion group over 'unreasonable' Xinjiang boycott
The HinduChina said Tuesday it was investigating U.S. fashion group PVH Corp., which owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, for "unreasonably boycotting" cotton from its Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of widespread rights violations. The statement gave no details of the punishment PVH could face but it could be added to China's "unreliable entity list" which could see it fined or banned from trading with the country. In 2020, a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute identified Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein among dozens of foreign and Chinese companies it said were "benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang". In a statement at the time to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, an advocacy group, PVH said it was "deeply troubled by the reports" and it was assessing how to "uphold international labour standards given the current situation in the region".
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