{"id":591956,"date":"2021-07-15T11:06:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591956"},"modified":"2021-07-15T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:07:01","slug":"senate-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes \u2018Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act\u2019"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fsenate-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act%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=591956&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-992174444-scaled-e1615224530988.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The United States Senate passed legislation that would halt imports from China\u2019s Xinjiang region, where the Chinese government is enslaving members of the Uyghur ethnic group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1155\/text\"><span>Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) \u2014 was approved in the Senate via unanimous consent on Wednesday. The legislation must now pass the House of Representatives and receive a signature from President Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the bill:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><i><span>Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307) states that it is illegal to import into the United States \u201cgoods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part\u201d by forced labor. Such merchandise is subject to exclusion or seizure and may lead to criminal investigation of the importer.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The policies of the Government of the People\u2019s Republic of China are in contravention of international human rights instruments signed by that government, including\u2014 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the People\u2019s Republic of China has signed but not yet ratified; the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, ratified by the People\u2019s Republic of China in 2001; and the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), to which the People\u2019s Republic of China has been a state party since February 2010.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cThe message to Beijing and any international company that profits from forced labor in Xinjiang is clear: no more,\u201d commented Rubio in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?id=9B870E7B-B0FF-4B64-849B-9D25602D7983\"><span>press release<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cWe will not turn a blind eye to the CCP\u2019s ongoing crimes against humanity, and we will not allow corporations a free pass to profit from those horrific abuses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cToday the Senate is sending a clear message that the United States will not be complicit in the Chinese government\u2019s genocide of Uyghur Muslims,\u201d added Merkley. \u201cUyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang are being forced into labor, tortured, imprisoned, forcibly sterilized, and pressured to abandon their religious and cultural practices by the Chinese government. No American corporation should profit from these abuses. No American consumers should be inadvertently purchasing products from slave labor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rubio urged the House of Representatives and the White House to avoid \u201cany further delay\u201d in approving the legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last September, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act passed the House by a 406-3 margin. However, as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-nike-lobbying-against-anti-china-bill-banning-import-of-products-made-by-forced-uyghur-labor\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span> reported, companies such as Nike, Coca-Cola, and Apple lobbied against the bill in the Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many American corporations derive much of their growth from China\u2019s rapidly expanding consumer economy and are therefore hesitant to oppose the nation\u2019s communist regime. Nike CEO John Donahoe <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nike-is-a-brand-that-is-of-china-and-for-china-nike-chief-executive-reassures-china\"><span>reassured<\/span><\/a><span> investors during a recent earnings call that \u201cNike is a brand that is of China and for China.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Senate passed legislation that would halt imports from China\u2019s Xinjiang region, where the Chinese government is enslaving members of the Uyghur ethnic group.The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591956","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\/591956","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591956\/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=591956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}