“It’s our responsibility as the world’s largest restaurant company to help solve for the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. And for years, we’ve been diligently working on this challenge, and it’s now been unified across the 150-plus countries and territories in which we operate, so that’s what’s really exciting.”
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to provide more information to Congress about why many products made in Xinjiang are still reaching U.S. shores. Media reports last year found that China’s Xinjiang region was still exporting tens of millions of dollars of products, despite a new U.S. law banning imports from the region unless importers can prove that the goods are not made with forced labor. Leading members of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China, including Chair Christopher Smith (R-N.J.), sent a letter addressed to Robert Silver, the chair of the Department of Homeland Security’s Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, stating that Congress “lacks sufficient information and transparency to accurately assess” whether implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) “comports with congressional intent.” The lawmakers have “learned that nearly 300 cargo shipments were stopped and later released because the importer claimed — and CBP accepted — that the UFLPA didn’t apply. The goods released included items from high-risk sectors with significant ties to the XUAR [Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] and labor transfer programs.”
That’s all for this week. Enjoy the weekend, and the song of the week, Fake Tales of San Francisco by the Arctic Monkeys.
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