{"id":7047,"date":"2022-01-17T17:35:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2022-01-17T17:35:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:35:18","slug":"new-law-to-combat-forced-labor-in-china-sparks-enforcement-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7047","title":{"rendered":"New law to combat forced labor in China sparks enforcement debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“President Joe Biden..signed a bill<\/a> to curb forced labor in China that U.S. business groups and trade experts warn will inflict unnecessary pain on U.S. firms and punish legitimately employed Uyghur Muslims in China\u2019s Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was approved after more than a year\u2019s delay, is designed to insulate U.S. companies and consumers from complicity in forced labor practices<\/a> in Xinjiang. The U.S. government has concluded that the practices are among abusive state policies targeting Uyghurs that constitute genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But industry groups and trade lawyers say the law\u2019s strict compliance standards coupled with problematic Customs and Border Protection enforcement will harm both U.S. business interests and Uyghur Muslims.”  
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“\u201cIf you’re a company who is manufacturing in that area, you\u2019re going to need to prove that slaves didn’t make it. The presumption is on you,\u201d Rubio said<\/a> after the bill\u2019s Dec. 16 Senate passage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Assertions of the law\u2019s stringent compliance standards are no exaggeration. It imposes a presumption of guilt in terms of forced labor links to any Xinjiang-sourced imports \u2014 predominately agricultural and chemical products \u2014 and obligates importers to provide documentation that proves its Xinjiang supply chains are not tied to forced labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experience of solar and apparel companies from previous forced labor enforcement actions by Customs and Border Protection suggest that the new law\u2019s compliance standards will be \u201cpractically impossible\u201d to meet, said former CBP trade lawyer Richard Mojica.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mojica and other trade lawyers say the law\u2019s compliance requirements will most seriously impact small- and medium-sized U.S. firms that lack in-house expertise to reliably map complex overseas supply chains.”  
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https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/23\/forced-labor-china-law-debate-526044<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President Joe Biden..signed a bill to curb forced labor in China that U.S. business groups and trade experts warn will inflict unnecessary pain on U.S. firms and punish legitimately employed Uyghur Muslims in China\u2019s Xinjiang region.
\nThe Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was approved after more than a year\u2019s delay, is designed to insulate U.S. companies and consumers from complicity in forced labor practices in Xinjiang. The U.S. government has concluded that the practices are among abusive state policies targeting Uyghurs that constitute genocide.<\/p>\n

But industry groups and trade lawyers say the law\u2019s strict compliance standards coupled with problematic Customs and Border Protection enforcement will harm both U.S. business interests and Uyghur Muslims.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“\u201cIf you’re a company who is manufacturing in that area, you\u2019re going to need to prove that slaves didn’t make it. The presumption is on you,\u201d Rubio said after the bill\u2019s Dec. 16 Senate passage.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Assertions of the law\u2019s stringent compliance standards are no exaggeration. It imposes a presumption of guilt in terms of forced labor links to any Xinjiang-sourced imports \u2014 predominately agricultural and chemical products \u2014 and obligates importers to provide documentation that proves its Xinjiang supply chains are not tied to forced labor.<\/p>\n

The experience of solar and apparel companies from previous forced labor enforcement actions by Customs and Border Protection suggest that the new law\u2019s compliance standards will be \u201cpractically impossible\u201d to meet, said former CBP trade lawyer Richard Mojica.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Mojica and other trade lawyers say the law\u2019s compliance requirements will most seriously impact small- and medium-sized U.S. firms that lack in-house expertise to reliably map complex overseas supply chains.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,86,1449,1178,226,227,1322,1321],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-discrimination","tag-labor","tag-minority","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-uyghurs","tag-xinjiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}