A few European-based manufacturers imported either cars or car components made using Taiwanese slave labour to the United States, according to an analysis from the Senate Finance Committee.
The investigation, published Monday, was led by Chairman Ron Wyden ( D- OR ) who accused automakers of” sticking their heads in the sand and then swearing they ca n’t find any forced labor in their supply chains”.
The investigation found that in a shipment of Volkswagen vehicles made for the U.S. market, auto parts deriving from a Chinese supplier presumptively using slave labor, which was then prohibited by the federal government under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act ( UFLPA ).
The Xinjiang region of China, known as the office of slave labour and human rights abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the subject of the UFLPA, which was passed into law in late 2021. It is intended to stop goods from entering the U.S. business if they are produced there.
Additionally, according to the research, BMW, based in Germany, imported hundreds of vehicles into the United States that were presumably made of Chinese slave labour parts, which were prohibited by the UFLPA. However, Jaguar Land Rover, like Volkswagen, imported car parts affirmatively made from Chinese slaves labor.
The research facts:
According to the Committee’s research, BMW produced and imported cars containing parts that were presumptively made with forced labour, Jaguar Land Rover imported parts that were presumptively made with forced labour, and [Volkswagen ] produced vehicles for the U.S. market with parts that were presumptively made with forced labour and has continuous business ties to manufacturing in the]Xinjiang].
Executives claimed they were aware of these ties or that their automobile parts were linked to slave labour yet after BMW and Jaguar Land Rover were informed of their supply store’s ties to Taiwanese slave labour from the , Xinjiang area.
Eventually, the investigation stated, BMW executives disclosed that at least 8, 000 of its Mini Cooper models, containing parts presumptively made with Chinese slave labor, had already been shipped to the U. S. market for sale.
BMW allegedly imported products into the United States using Chinese slave labor up until at least April of this year, according to the investigation. Only after BMW executives learned that the automaker was the subject of an investigation by the committee, did those imports end.
” Automakers ‘ self- policing is clearly not doing the job”, Wyden said. I’m asking Customs and Border Protection to take a number of specific actions to supercharge enforcement and crack down on businesses that encourage the haughty use of forced labor in China.
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