Democratic Senators Criticize American Multinationals on Forced Labor
Senate Finance Committee Democrats, including the ranking member, are urging U.S. Chamber of Commerce members “to take immediate action to ensure goods manufactured for them are not complicit in the China’s state-directed human rights abuses, including by relocating production” from…
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Xinjiang province. In an Oct. 27 letter, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said multinational companies need to be part of the solution in eradicating forced labor in China. “We will continue to push Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to investigate and issue region-wide Withhold Release Orders (WROs) for all products known to be produced in the [Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China] and to implement a comprehensive response to the Chinese government’s violation of human rights,” they said.