DHS Blocks Cotton Imports From Chinese Slave Labor Camps From Entering US

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Cotton products manufactured through slave labor in China will be detained upon entering the U.S., officials announced Wednesday.

The Nov. 30 withhold release order targets Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps following recent information that the company used forced labor from internment camps in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, officials with the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said during a press conference.

The order says the Chinese government is committing systemic human rights abuses against the Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minority groups, according to CBP.

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