{"id":1100353,"date":"2021-12-08T20:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T01:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1100353"},"modified":"2021-12-08T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T01:59:40","slug":"house-passes-bill-banning-imports-from-xinjiang-china-over-slave-labor-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-bill-banning-imports-from-xinjiang-china-over-slave-labor-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Bill Banning Imports From Xinjiang, China Over Slave Labor Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-passes-bill-banning-imports-from-xinjiang-china-over-slave-labor-concerns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1100353&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday night to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Act, which prohibits Americans from importing goods made from forced labor in Xinjiang province of China.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1155\/text\">bill<\/a>, sponsored by Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern, passed 428-1, with only Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie voting against it. A companion bill sponsored by Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-xinjiang-rubio-merkley\/\">passed<\/a> the Senate by voice vote in July. The House passed the same bill in September 2020, but the Senate did not take up the bill before the end of the previous congressional session. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/state-department-advisory-xinjiang-forced-labor\/\"><strong>(RELATED: \u2018Torture, Rape, Forced Sterilization\u2019: Businesses Operating In Xinjiang, China, Could Violate US Law, State Dept. Says)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The House passed the bill under suspension of regular rules, due to its broad bipartisan support. The legislation was co-sponsored by 111 members from both parties.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.466292134831\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">428-1:House passed Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act,legislation banning the importation of goods made with forced labor in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.Bill by Rep. McGovern (D-MA) now heads to Senate,which passed its own version of the bill by voice vote in July. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c6tcz8V85Q\">pic.twitter.com\/c6tcz8V85Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigCaplan\/status\/1468730785335283714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is a strong, bipartisan bill with a simple purpose: to stop the government of China from exploiting the Uyghur people,\u201d McGovern said in a statement.<b> <\/b>\u201cIn two months, the Chinese government will host the Winter Olympics in the middle of a genocide. We must take a clear moral position to stand with those who are suffering because of forced labor. No more business as usual. I am especially grateful to Speaker Pelosi for her longstanding and principled leadership on this issue and for getting it to the floor for a vote, and I urge the United States Senate to quickly pass this bill and get it to President Biden\u2019s desk for his signature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal law prohibits the importation of products made with forced labor, and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act creates the presumption that all products made in Xinjiang are made with forced labor. If a firm wishes to import products from Xinjiang, it would be required to provide \u201cclear and convincing evidence\u201d that the products were not made with forced or convict labor.<\/p>\n<p>Several major companies and trade groups, including Apple, Coca-Cola, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/24\/apple-retail-groups-lobbying-chinese-slave-uyghur-labor-bill\/\">lobbied<\/a> against the bill. Seven Apple suppliers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/ken-buck-apple-uyghur-xinjiang-forced-labor-genocide-lobbying\/\">named<\/a> in media reports as employing forced labor.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Trump and Biden administrations <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/22\/state-department-pompeo-blinken-china-xinjiang-uighurs-genocide\/\">determined<\/a> that China is committing genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, and is forcing Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to participate in forced labor in factories run by the Chinese government. They are also reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/26\/east-turkistan-xinjiang-uighur-genocide-holocaust\/\">subject<\/a> to electric shock torture, organ harvesting, and mass rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday night to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Act, which prohibits Americans from importing goods made from forced labor in Xinjiang province of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}