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Trump Signs Bill That Could Remove Chinese Stocks From U.S. Bloomberg 12/18/2020 © Bloomberg President Donald Trump boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that could kick Chinese companies off of U.S. exchanges unless American regulators can review their financial audits, a move likely to further escalate tensions between the two countries. Popular Searches The measure, which could affect corporate giants...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 2, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued an order blocking all imports of cotton and cotton products from Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a Chinese state-owned company operating in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The impact of the order, intended to combat the alleged use of forced labor of ethnic Uighur Muslims, is potentially sweeping — as, by some estimates, XPCC produces 7% o...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On December 2, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued an order preventing certain imported cotton products from China from being released to the importer. The products were made by Xinjian Production and Construction Corp. (XPCC). The order is based on information that indicates the use of forced labor in the production of the goods. Background on Withhold Release Orders U.S. Customs...

The world’s clothiers have been confronted with a dirty secret: 20% of the world’s cotton — including supplies used to make their haute couture — is being picked by the Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group in China. And they’re not working in the fields willingly. A Google Earth satellite photo shows a Chinese gulag on the right and a textile mill on the left with political prisoners transferred from one to the other. (CN) — There’s a gulag in the vast Eurasian Steppe with a mill...

Thursday, December 17, 2020 On December 2, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued an order blocking all imports of cotton and cotton products from Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a Chinese state-owned company operating in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The impact of the order, intended to combat the alleged use of forced labor of ethnic Uighur Muslims, is potentially sweeping — as, by some estimates, XPCC produces 7% of the world’s cotton....

Chinas forced-labor cotton market dredges up grim memories of American slavery More than 150 years after the end of the U.S. Civil War, the cotton market is once again a center of human rights abuses. A report says that halfway around the world, there are still minorities being forced to spend their days harvesting cotton.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images Dec. 17, 2020, 6:55 PM UTC There’s something about cotton. The backbreaking crop that powered the antebellum South is etched in the psyche ...

European Parliament Urges Sanctions on Chinese Officials Over Uyghur Abuse The European Parliament has called for EU sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the abuse of Uyghurs and to ban Chinese imports tainted with forced labor. The “European Parliament resolution on forced labor and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” was passed with an overwhelming majority on Thursday, with 604 in favor, 20 against, and 57 abstentions. The Resolution call...

Fashion brands urged to ban Uighur-picked cotton We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Fashion brands urged to ban Uighur-picked cotton By Sam Meadows and Louise Watt December 16, 2020 — 3.41pm Normal text size Advertisement London: British high street brands are under pressure from human rights campaigners to ban cotton picked in the Chinese region that is home to its oppressed Uighur population. It came after reports revealed at least half a m...

By Michael W. Chapman | December 16, 2020 | 2:16pm EST DHS Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli. (Getty Images) The acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Ken Cuccinelli, is warning Americans that "Made in China" cotton goods, such as blankets, sheets, and clothing, may have been made by Chinese slave labor, "modern-day slaves" in that Communist regimes vast "new gulag archipelago." Up to three million Ughurs, Kazakhs, and other Mu...

Report Shows Scale of Forced Labor in Xinjiang Cotton Industry Posted by John Chan | Dec 15, 2020 A new report from the Center for Global Policy has revealed that systematic forced labor has been employed in a much greater proportion of the Xinjiang cotton trade than previously thought. In the report, researcher Adrian Zenz finds that more than 500,000 people have been forced to pick cotton as part of the Chinese government’s poverty alleviation campaign. Other recent research has exposed wid...