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Time's up for US firms to cut ties to major Xinjiang cotton producer - Update
2020-12-02 11:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has officially enforced a new withhold release order that detains the entry of cotton and cotton products produced by China's Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) and its subordinate and affiliated entities as well as textile and apparel products made using that cotton, even if they are made in third party countries.
China Muslims: Volkswagen says 'no forced labour' at Xinjiang plant
2020-11-12 19:01:33| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The car maker defends continued production in a Chinese region mired in allegations of rights abuses.
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We have no ties to Xinjiang, major apparel retailers tell UK MPs
2020-11-06 14:04:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Major apparel companies H&M Group, Nike Inc, and Boohoo Group have told UK politicians they do not have any supply chain links to the Xinjiang region of China, with Boohoo revealing plans to map all of its global tier-one and tier-two supply chains over the next year.
UK holds hearing on exploitation of forced labour in Xinjiang
2020-11-05 14:23:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The UK Parliament is holding a hearing today (5 November) to determine the extent to which business in the UK are exploiting the forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China.
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Better Cotton Initiative halts Xinjiang operations
2020-10-22 12:15:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) is to halt all field-level activities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China, where ongoing allegations of forced labour and other human rights abuses "have contributed to an increasingly untenable operating environment."
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