US urged to ban shipments of Apple products due to forced labor

by time news

The American non-profit organization (NPO) Tech Transparency Project filed a complaint with the US Border Protection and Customs Service demanding a ban on the supply of iPhones and other Apple equipment due to the use of forced labor in factories in China. The Axios edition writes about this with reference to the appeal of the NGO.

The complaint came after The Information published an investigation that said seven Chinese companies supplying components for Apple devices were using forced and bonded labor. According to the newspaper, these companies are participants in the program to combat poverty, which is subsidized by the Chinese authorities.

Plants that produce components for devices forcibly recruit representatives of national minorities in China, including the Muslim population of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Uyghurs. An Apple spokesman denied the information published in The Information, saying that the company “found no evidence of forced labor.”

“Apple seems unable or unwilling to conduct basic research on its partners and acknowledge the repeated use of forced labor in China. The border and customs service should encourage Apple and other companies doing business in China to respect the rights of the Uyghurs, ”the Tech Transparency Project quoted the publication as saying.

NGO representatives point out that the US authorities have the right to restrict the import of certain Apple products in accordance with the tariff law adopted in the United States in 1930. This is the so-called Smoot-Hawley Act, signed by President Herbert Hoover. The law raised tariffs on more than 20,000 imported goods, in response, other states raised duties on the import of American goods, which led to a sharp drop in trade between the United States and European countries during the Great Depression. Among other things, he was banned from importing goods produced by prisoners.

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