{"id":1149643,"date":"2021-12-24T08:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1149643"},"modified":"2021-12-24T08:34:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:34:41","slug":"biden-signs-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-signs-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Signs Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-signs-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-into-law%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=1149643&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--><p>President Biden signed his Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The law, introduced in 2020 by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), stipulates that no goods made with slave labor from Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province will make it to the U.S., according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=A338134F-152A-4CC4-A311-703D2D4FBF9F\">press release<\/a> from Rubio\u2019s office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most important and impactful action taken thus far by the United States to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for their use of slave labor,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cIt will fundamentally change our relationship with Beijing. This law should also ensure that Americans no longer unknowingly buy goods made by slaves in China. I look forward to working with the Biden Administration and my colleagues to ensure the new law is implemented correctly and enforced properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The Senate unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senate-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act\">passed<\/a> the legislation in July, but it then got held up in the House. In October, reports said that the Biden administration was telling lawmakers to slow down with the bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Josh Rogin, a columnist for The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/12\/02\/congress-needs-act-xi-jinpings-genocide-now\/\">wrote<\/a> in an op-ed early this month,<\/p>\n<p>Administration sources confirmed that in an October call between Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the other co-sponsor, Sherman made it clear that the administration prefers a more targeted and deliberative approach to determining which goods are the products of forced labor. She also told Merkley that getting allied buy-in was critical and more effective than unilateral action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, the Department of State is not opposing this amendment,\u201d a State Department spokesman told me. \u201cWe share the Congress\u2019 concerns about forced labor in Xinjiang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, while the administration supports the legislation in public, they are asking Democrats to essentially water it down in private. Sherman\u2019s specific criticism relates to a part of the bill that would require a presumption that all products coming from Xinjiang are tainted by forced labor unless the importer can prove otherwise. This happens to be the exact provision corporations are also objecting to. Maybe it\u2019s a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>The House finally passed a revised version of the bill on December 8, a passage that was praised by Rubio. The Senate passed the revised bill on December 16.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who are not familiar with it at this point, [the bill] basically says that you can\u2019t import products into the United States that are made by slave labor in Xinjiang, or from entities that are associated with the government of that region,\u201d Rubio said in a Senate floor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=9D72A58E-4F73-4CE3-B208-D013FB1E4F0D\">speech<\/a>. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re a company who is manufacturing in that area, you\u2019re going to need to prove that slaves didn\u2019t make it. The presumption is on you.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s already illegal, by the way, to bring goods made with slave labor; it\u2019s been that way since the 1930s. And yet it\u2019s still happening,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd we know it\u2019s happening at an alarming, horrific rate with the genocide that we now witness being carried out by the Chinese government in the Xinjiang region. And this bill, which we hope here in a few moments passes today, will head to the President, become law, and it will help tremendously in stopping that from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden signed his Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law on Thursday.\u00a0 The law, introduced in 2020 by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), stipulates that no goods made with slave labor from Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province will make it to the U.S., according to a press release from Rubio\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"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-1149643","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\/1149643","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149643\/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=1149643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}