{"id":647,"date":"2020-09-11T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saveuighur.org\/?p=647"},"modified":"2020-09-11T02:09:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T02:09:36","slug":"save-uighur-campaign-welcomes-us-move-to-block-chinese-cotton-and-tomato-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saveuighur.org\/ug\/save-uighur-campaign-welcomes-us-move-to-block-chinese-cotton-and-tomato-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Uighur Campaign Welcomes US Move to Block Chinese Cotton and Tomato Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Save Uighur campaign under Justice For All welcomes the United States&#8217; plan to block cotton and tomato imports from East Turkestan. This comes after concerns of using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspi.org.au\/report\/uyghurs-sale\">mass forced labor<\/a> of Uighur and other Turkic people, millions of whom are detained in concentration camps and prisons. Indicators of mass forced labor by the CPB includes &#8220;debt bondage, unfree movement, isolation, intimidation and threats, withholding of wages, and abusive working and living conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/connecting-dots-xinjiang-forced-labor-forced-assimilation-and-western-supply-chains\">80% of China&#8217;s cotton<\/a> comes from the East Turkestan region, and 30% of United States apparel comes from China. Around a fifth of the world&#8217;s cotton also comes from China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">CBP official Brenda Smith told Reuters the effective import bans would &#8220;cover the entire supply chains for cotton, from yarn to textiles and apparel, as well as tomatoes, tomato paste and other regional exports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cWe have reasonable, but not conclusive, evidence that there is a risk of forced labor in supply chains related to cotton textiles and tomatoes coming out of Xinjiang,\u201d Smith, an executive assistant commissioner, told Reuters in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more info on this move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trade-china-xinjiang\/u-s-to-block-cotton-tomato-product-imports-from-chinas-xinjiang-over-forced-labor-idUSKBN25Z29N\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Save Uighur campaign under Justice For All welcomes the United States&#8217; plan to block cotton and tomato imports from East Turkestan. 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