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January 14, 2025
The US has banned imports from one other tranche of Chinese language firms over alleged human-rights abuses involving the Uyghurs, focusing on 37 textile, mining and photo voltaic firms, the Division of Homeland Safety stated on Tuesday.
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The businesses embrace Huafu Trend Co., one of many world’s largest textile producers, and 25 of its subsidiaries, which the U.S. has linked to forced-labor practices in China’s cotton trade.
The businesses had been added to the Uyghur Pressured Labor Prevention Act Entity Listing, which restricts the import of products tied to what the U.S. describes as China’s human-rights abuses and ongoing genocide within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area.
U.S. authorities say Chinese language authorities have established internment camps for Uyghurs and different spiritual and ethnic minority teams in China’s western Xinjiang area. Beijing has denied any abuses.
The newly listed firms additionally embrace Donghai JA Photo voltaic Expertise Co, which develops solar-energy merchandise with polysilicon made in Xinjiang, and Hongyuan Inexperienced Vitality Co, which sources polysilicon from the area, in accordance with the U.S.
Zijin Mining Group Co and three of its subsidiaries, which supply and extract zinc, copper and different metals from the area, are among the many mining firms.
The most recent additions convey the entire variety of firms on the record to 144 because the Uyghur Pressured Labor Prevention Act was signed into regulation in December 2021.
The businesses couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.A spokesperson for the Chinese language embassy in Washington didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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