Rubio Urges Funding For Implementation Of His Uyghur Forced Labor Bill

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U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), along with U.S. Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Jim McGovern (D-MA), the Ranking Members and Cochairs, respectively, of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), sent a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations in support of increased funding for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency to aggressively enforce Rubio's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (P.L. 117-78).

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was signed into law in December 2021, requires the U.S. government to implement the presumptive import ban of any goods mined or manufactured in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), or from entities engaged in coercive labor transfers elsewhere in China, unless the importer proves the goods were not produced with slave labor.

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