{"id":45625,"date":"2022-06-21T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/21\/us-ban-on-cotton-from-forced-uyghur-labour-comes-into-force"},"modified":"2022-06-21T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T05:00:29","slug":"us-ban-on-cotton-from-forced-uyghur-labour-comes-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45625","title":{"rendered":"US ban on cotton from forced Uyghur labour comes into force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion industry told to avoid cotton from Xinjiang, which accounts for 84% of China\u2019s exports of the product<\/p>\n<p>The fashion industry has been told it must wean itself off cotton from China\u2019s Xinjiang region, as a new law comes into force giving US border authorities greater powers to block or seize goods linked to forced labour in China.<\/p>\n<p>The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which comes into force today, assumes that any product partly or wholly made in Xinjiang, north-west China, is linked to the region\u2019s labour camps. Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained as many as one million Uyghurs and subjected them to forced labour.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/21\/us-ban-on-cotton-from-forced-uyghur-labour-comes-into-force\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion industry told to avoid cotton from Xinjiang, which accounts for 84% of China\u2019s exports of the productThe fashion industry has been told it must wean itself off cotton from China\u2019s Xinjiang region, as a new law comes into force giving US border &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,833,1318,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-fashion-industry","category-forced-labour","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45626,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625\/revisions\/45626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}