The United States has announced that it has once again expanded its blacklist banning the import of products from China’s Xinjiang region .
About 30 new Chinese companies have been accused of using raw materials or parts made or assembled by forced Uyghur labor, or of using such labor themselves to make their products .
“By adding these entities, the administration continues to demonstrate its commitment to ensuring that products made with forced labor by Uyghurs or other ethnic or religious minorities in Xinjiang do not enter the United States ,” US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a statement.
In a separate statement, members of the parliamentary committee specializing in the activities of the Chinese Communist Party said they were “pleased with this additional step,” saying that American companies “should completely cut their ties with companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party and develop a supply chain free from forced labor .”
This addition brings to 107 the number of companies now banned from exporting to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security announced .
