Washington The USA wants to initiate further sanctions against China because of the oppression of the Muslim Uighur minority. The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a law banning imports from China’s Xinjiang region for forced labor. The House of Representatives approved the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act with an overwhelming 428-1 vote. The law makes the rebuttable presumption that all goods from Xinjiang were made through forced labor and bans them from importing.
For the law to go into effect it has yet to pass the Senate and be signed by President Joe Biden. Republicans are accusing Democrats of delaying the law because it would complicate President Joe Biden’s renewable energy agenda. The White House and the Democrats in Congress deny this. Xinjiang supplies most of the world’s solar cell materials.