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Washington Slaps Import Bans On Chinese Companies Using “Forced Labor” From Imprisoned Muslims
Nation and State ^
| 09/08/2020
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 09/08/2020 7:49:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Washington has announced its latest move to punish Chinese CCP officials and mainland-based companies for enabling human rights abuses in Xinjiang, the far-western region where as many as 1 million Chinese Uighur (a Muslim minority group) have reportedly been interned in a network of 'forced labor camps'.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday morning that it has banned imports from three Chinese companies based in the Xinjiang region of China, retaliation for Beijing’s repression of the Uighurs.
US Customs and Border Protection on Aug. 11 issued a "withhold release order", which is used to combat forced labor in global supply chains, against Hero Vast Group for using “convict labor and forced labor to produce the garments it manufactures." CBP said in a statement. It issued similar orders against Lop County Meixin Hair Product Co. on June 17 and Hetian Haolin Hair Accessories Co. on May 1, according to the Tuesday announcement.
The US plans to impose similar restrictions on six more firms, targeting cotton, textiles, tomatoes, haircare products and computer parts from the area.Those should arrive by the end of this fiscal year, the CBP said (the new fiscal year for the federal government begins Oct. 1).
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; forcedlabor; importban; washington
To: SeekAndFind
Tomatoes? Why in the hell do we need to import tomatoes from halfway around the globe?
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:08:40 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: SeekAndFind
Wait!
The uyghurs are muslims. Muslims believe in slavery.
They just don’t like it when it’s them.
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:13:51 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:16:04 AM PDT
by
preacher
( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
To: SeekAndFind
Notice how the people who are so concerned about “The Palestinians” have nothing to say about a million Muslim Uighurs in slave labor camps.
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:17:13 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: BuffaloJack
BuffaloJack :" The uyghurs are muslims. Muslims believe in slavery.
They just don’t like it when it’s them."
Can you imagine the financial impact if the BLM
heard that NIKE was using muslim slave labor to manufacture sneakers ?
Horrors . They might have to wear converse sneakers !
To: SeekAndFind
So labor forced on other ethnic groups is A-OK? So, to get back in Washington’s good graces, all China needs to do is some staffing changes. A new set of forced laborers. Easy peasy.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:20:00 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: SeekAndFind
Slave labor isn’t new to that side of the world.
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:27:36 AM PDT
by
caww
To: Buckeye McFrog
Tomatoes? Why in the hell do we need to import tomatoes from halfway around the globe?
Check your apple juice bottles, too. Washington state can grow enough for the whole world, and a LOT of apple juice is made in Red China (assuming it actually IS apple juice).
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:35:50 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: All
"Tomatoes? Why in the hell do we need to import tomatoes
from halfway around the globe?" There is no need to import food stuffs
from communist China. They're not safe to eat.
Why would anyone want to eat anything from China,
knowing that the Chi-Comms adulterate whatever they
produce with dangerous and poisonous substances?
The Chi-Comms want to murder everyone on Earth.
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:48:31 AM PDT
by
StormEye
To: Dr. Sivana
" ... and a LOT of apple juice is made in Red China
(assuming it actually IS apple juice)." Yep. I read the labels but many times that doesn't help.
Labels will often say "distributed" by some USA country in order
to conceal where the product comes from (China most likely.)
"Globalists" have had legislation passed that
permits them to hide the country of origin of their
imported food products -- particularly juices.
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posted on
09/08/2020 8:59:15 AM PDT
by
StormEye
To: StormEye
Labels will often say “distributed” by most often means that it is packaged by an American company for a retailer such as Kroger. Just look at a carrot or potato bag.
In most cases, if a product is grown in a foreign country, it will say “A product of _______.”
To: PapaBear3625; All
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posted on
09/08/2020 11:44:29 AM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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