It's the latest move by the U.S. government to sanction China over its inhumane treatment of the Muslim minority population
, called the"Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act," passed both the House and Senate unanimously last week.Uyghurs are believed to be held in camps in the Xinjiang province of northwestern China, where they work as slave laborers and are forced to abandon their cultural practices.to seize imports it suspects were produced by slave labor, but such goods have long made it to U.S. markets anyway due to trade law loopholes.
Under the new law, though, the U.S. will assume all goods imported from Xinjiang were produced by forced labor, leaving manufacturers responsible for proving any imported goods from the region didn't rely on slave labor."I guarantee, as I speak to you now, everyone in this building owns something that was made by a slave in Xinjiang and most people don't know that," Sen. Marco Rubio , a proponent of the bill,of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, with countries like the U.K.