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22 Nov 2024

Author:
Karen Freifeld and Susan Heavey, Reuters

USA: 30 Chinese food and metal companies added to Uyghur forced labour import ban

"US bars more food, metal imports over China's alleged forced labor" 22 November 2024

The United States banned food, metals and other imports from about 30 more Chinese companies over alleged forced labor involving the Uyghurs, according to a government notice posted online on Friday.

The new restrictions, covering a range of products from tomato paste and walnuts to gold and iron ore, are part of the federal government's effort to prevent goods made with forced labor from entering the United States, the Federal Register posting said...

Twenty-three of the newly added companies are in the agricultural sector. Others mine, smelt and process metallic materials including copper, lithium, beryllium, nickel, manganese and gold...

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