Senate Passes Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. What Comes Next?

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation Wednesday to ban the import of all goods from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. — In this file photo taken Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, a member of the Uyghur American Association rallies in front of the White House after marching from Capitol Hill in Washington, in support of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which has passed the House and now will go on to the Senate. The accusation of genocide by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against China touches on a hot-button human rights issue between China and the West.

CREDIT: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation Wednesday to ban the import of all goods from China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region following growing reports about forced labor and other human-rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act creates a “rebuttable presumption” that assumes all products from Xinjiang are…

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