{"id":1150047,"date":"2021-12-24T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150047"},"modified":"2021-12-24T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:34:19","slug":"biden-signs-uyghur-slave-labor-bill-lobbied-against-by-apple-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-signs-uyghur-slave-labor-bill-lobbied-against-by-apple-nike\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Signs Uyghur Slave Labor Bill Lobbied Against By Apple, Nike"},"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\">22<\/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-slave-labor-bill-lobbied-against-by-apple-nike%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=1150047&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>President Joe Biden signed a slave labor bill into law Thursday banning imports from the Xinjiang region where Uyghurs are being held in internment camps despite pushback from Apple and Nike.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/12\/23\/bill-signed-h-r-6256\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill<\/a> bans imports from the region and \u201cimposes sanctions on foreign individuals responsible for forced labor in the region,\u201d the White House announced.<\/p>\n<p>Nike executives <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/16\/nike-democrat-oregon-ron-wyden-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donated more than $60,000<\/a> in September to the re-election campaign of Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/15\/ron-wyden-blocks-uyghur-slave-labor-bill-child-tax-credit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocked<\/a> the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/congress-uyghur-forced-labor-bill-d4699c95-16ea-4b42-bda4-eb5baa29326a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed unanimously<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/rick-scott-letter-meeting-nba-commissioner-adam-silver-silence-china-ongoing-genocide-uyghur-muslims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Sen. Scott Calls For Meeting With NBA Commissioner Over Silence On China\u2019s \u2018Ongoing Genocide\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7342501\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7342501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA \u2013 DECEMBER 21: The Nike logo hangs above the entrance to the Nike store on December 21, 2021, in Miami Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cecc.gov\/sites\/chinacommission.house.gov\/files\/documents\/CECC%20Staff%20Report%20March%202020%20-%20Global%20Supply%20Chains%2C%20Forced%20Labor%2C%20and%20the%20Xinjiang%20Uyghur%20Autonomous%20Region.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> from March conducted by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China found the company was one of several major corporations suspected of either directly employing forced labor or source materials from suppliers in the region who were using forced labor. The company, however, has denied sourcing products from the region and said in a statement they \u201chave confirmed with our contract suppliers that they are not using textiles or spun yarn from the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disclosures filed with Congress in April show <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/24\/apple-retail-groups-lobbying-chinese-slave-uyghur-labor-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple and several retail trade groups<\/a> lobbied lawmakers in the first quarter of the year to oppose a bill that would prevent American companies from using forced labor in the Xinjiang region. The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/12\/29\/lens-technology-apple-uighur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> in 2020 that one of Apple\u2019s suppliers, Lens Technology, uses forced labor to make glass screens for its iPhones. Apple has denied the allegations but The Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/11\/20\/apple-uighur\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> last year that a firm hired by Apple met with congressional aides to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/21\/apple-lobbying-china-forced-labor-uighur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">soften<\/a> the language in the Uyghur bill.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden signed a slave labor bill into law Thursday banning imports from the Xinjiang region where Uyghurs are being held in internment camps despite pushback from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"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-1150047","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\/1150047","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150047\/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=1150047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}