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WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – A senior U.S. senator on Tuesday accused U.S. companies of willfully ignoring “horrific” compelled labor situations in China’s Xinjiang area and referred to as on the Commerce Division to cease American corporations and customers shopping for items produced by such labor.
In a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez stated current experiences indicated a wide selection of U.S. corporations, together with Apple AAPL.O, Kraft Heinz KHC.O, Coca-Cola KO.N, and the Hole GPS.N, had sourced, or continued to supply, items from Xinjiang.
“Furthermore, there are constant experiences that U.S. corporations fail to undertake primary labor and human rights assessments in Xinjiang, in essence willfully ignoring the horrific situations of compelled labor in Xinjiang,” Menendez, the rating member of the Senate Committee on Overseas Relations, stated within the letter.
“In failing to uphold their obligations to vet their provide chains, these corporations could also be complicit within the mass repression of Uighurs,…