The businesses are the most recent additions to the Uyghur Compelled Labor Prevention Act Entity Checklist that restricts the import of products tied to what the US authorities has characterised as an ongoing genocide of minorities in China’s Xinjiang area.

US officers consider Chinese language authorities have established labor camps for Uyghurs and different Muslim minority teams in China’s western Xinjiang area. Beijing denies any abuses.

Most of the cotton corporations listed are based mostly exterior of Xinjiang however supply their cotton from the area, the US Division of Homeland Safety stated in an announcement.

The designations assist “accountable corporations conduct due diligence in order that, collectively, we are able to hold the merchandise of pressured labor out of our nation,” Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Safety, stated within the assertion.

A spokesperson for the Chinese language embassy in Washington criticized the transfer.

“The so-called ‘Uyghur Compelled Labor Prevention Act’ is simply an instrument of some US politicians to disrupt stability in Xinjiang and comprise China’s improvement,” the spokesperson stated.

Washington has restricted imports from 65 entities for the reason that Uyghur Compelled Labor Prevention Act Entity Checklist legislation was handed in 2021, in response to the division.

“We enthusiastically endorse DHS’s motion at this time to almost double the Uyghur Compelled Labor Prevention Act’s ‘Entity Checklist’ — whereas recognizing that the present record stays solely a fraction of the companies complicit in pressured labor,” Consultant Chris Smith and Senator Jeff Merkley, chairs of the bipartisan Congressional-Govt Fee on China, stated in an announcement.

The lawmakers need DHS to blacklist Chinese language corporations within the polysilicon, aluminum, PVC and rayon industries and any firm in different elements of Asia making items for the US market with inputs sourced from Xinjiang.