U.S. Senate passes bill to ban all products from China's Xinjiang

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Source: Reuters

July 15, 2021
3:34 AM EDT
Last Updated 3 hours ago

Michael Martina

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ban the import of products from China's Xinjiang region, the latest effort in Washington to punish Beijing for what U.S. officials say is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups.

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act would create a "rebuttable presumption" assuming goods manufactured in Xinjiang are made with forced labor and therefore banned under the 1930 Tariff Act, unless otherwise certified by U.S. authorities.

Passed by unanimous consent, the bipartisan measure would shift the burden of proof to importers. The current rule bans goods if there is reasonable evidence of forced labor.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-senate-passes-bill-ban-all-products-chinas-xinjiang-2021-07-15/

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1. Hope that's where Ivanka's voting machines are manufactured.

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2. Can't exporters truck goods to another Chinese port?

“No, it’s not made in Xinjiang. I swear.” *Winky Winky*

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3. Probably but the question is what kind of teeth does this include? If the punishment for getting

caught is severe enough the profit they might earn on doing so might turn off a number of them from trying it.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

4. Banning imports form Hong Kong would have more teeth.

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6. Chocolate???

Why doesn't congress stop all imports from the Ivory coast. 75% of our chocolate comes from the Ivory coast and it is produced with slave child labor. Manufactures have broken all their promises to end the child labor.
This is bullshit.