Congress passed a bill banning the importation of products manufactured in China’s Xinjiang region into the United States. The bill, which was approved in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, was presented to President Joe Biden after being accepted in the Senate today.
With President Joe Biden’s signing of the bill, a new one will be added to the steps taken by the US in response to the oppressive policies of the Chinese administration against the Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki previously said: “The Administration will work closely with Congress to implement this law to help rid the global production chain of forced labor. On the other hand, we will also work on domestic and third-party core supply chains, including semiconductors and clean energy.”
According to the final decision in the bill, which Democrats and Republicans debated for months, American companies will not be able to bring products and goods from this region to the US market unless they can prove that the products they import were not produced by forced laborers in the Uyghur region of China.
The USA and many other western countries argue that China is oppressing the Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in the Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Region, and that many people are kept in concentration camps in the region by the Chinese government. The Chinese authorities, who argue that the camps that have reacted to it are for “educational purposes”, continue to reject the claims that the people there are prisoners.