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The US has banned food, metals and other imports from about 30 more Chinese companies over alleged forced labour involving the Uygurs, according to a government notice posted online on Friday.
The new restrictions, covering a range of products from tomato paste and walnuts to gold and iron ore, are part of the federal government’s effort to prevent goods made with forced labour from entering the United States, the Federal Register posting said.
The companies were added to the Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act Entity List, which restricts the import of goods tied to what the US describes as China’s human rights abuses and ongoing genocide in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
US authorities say Chinese authorities have established internment camps for Uygurs and other religious and ethnic minority groups in China’s western Xinjiang region. Beijing has denied any abuses.
The latest additions bring the total number of companies on the list to more than 100 since the Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act was signed into law in December 2021.
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Twenty-three of the newly added companies are in the agricultural sector. Others mine, smelt and process metallic materials including copper, lithium, beryllium, nickel, manganese and gold.