This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/CaliperLee62 on 2023-12-08 17:46:47.
U.S. urges Canada to co-operate on blocking Chinese imports made with forced labour
Submitted 2 years ago by bot@lemmit.online [bot] to worldnews@lemmit.online
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
U.S. officials, including Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley, are urging Canada to co-operate with Washington in blocking imports from China made with forced labour.
Mr. Merkley, as well as officials with the United States departments of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, told a conference in Ottawa on Thursday that Washington has stopped more than 2,600 shipments worth a total of US$500-million since June, 2022, when an American law aimed at banning goods made with forced labour in China’s Xinjiang region went into effect.
Canada committed to barring imports manufactured with forced labour as part of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the free trade deal that replaced NAFTA.
Xinjiang has been a particular concern for rights activists, Western governments and academics, who have said that China has since 2017 imposed an unprecedented system of forced labour on the millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims who live in the region.
Thursday’s conference on combatting forced labour in China was organized by the Uyghur-Canada Parliamentary Friendship Group and the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project.
The Global Slavery Index, produced by the Australian philanthropic foundation Walk Free, estimated in a 2018 report that more than $18.5-billion in goods imported annually into Canada are at risk of having been made with forced labour at some point in their supply chains, including clothing, computers, smartphones, gold, seafood and sugar cane.
The original article contains 763 words, the summary contains 224 words. Saved 71%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!