US House Reintroduces Bill to Ban All Xinjiang Goods Made With Forced Labor

The U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 1 reintroduced a bill with bipartisan backing that would make it illegal to import into the United States all goods from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, unless it can prove that forced labor was not involved in their production.

Police officers wearing face masks guard the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on May 14, 2020. Erin Scott/Reuters

The U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 1 reintroduced a bill with bipartisan backing that would make it illegal to import into the United States all goods from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, unless it can prove that forced labor was not involved in their production.

The revised version of the bill that passed the House 406–3 in the previous Congress last September is similar to the Senate version—the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (pdf), which was reintroduced last month.