USA: Chinese seafood, aluminum & footwear factories added to US entity list over alleged forced labour links
"U.S. Bans Imports From 3 Chinese Companies Over Ties to Forced Labor" 11 June 2024
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday added three Chinese companies to a list of firms whose products can no longer be exported to the United States...
The companies include a seafood processor, Shandong Meijia Group, that an investigation by the Outlaw Ocean Project identified as a business employing laborers brought to eastern China from Xinjiang...
Another firm, Xinjiang Shenhuo Coal and Electricity, is an aluminum processor whose metal can be found in cars, consumer electronics and other products, a U.S. official said. The third, Dongguan Oasis Shoes, brought Uyghurs and people from other persecuted groups to its footwear factory in Guangdong, the U.S. government said...
With those additions, 68 companies now appear on the so-called entity list of firms that the U.S. government says participate in forced labor programs, nearly double the number at the beginning of the year...