{"id":69012,"date":"2025-01-19T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/20\/thousands-of-imports-enter-australia-from-companies-blacklisted-by-us-over-claimed-uyghur-forced-labour-links-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-01-19T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:00:06","slug":"thousands-of-imports-enter-australia-from-firms-blacklisted-by-us-over-alleged-uyghur-forced-labour-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69012","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of imports enter Australia from firms blacklisted by US over alleged Uyghur forced labour links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imports of a range of products, including parts for Sydney Metro vehicles, increase despite US bans on dozens of companies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia is allowing thousands of imports from Chinese companies blacklisted by the US over alleged links to forced Uyghur labour, including a supplier of parts to Sydney Metro vehicles, government documents have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 the Biden administration passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, and from the following year began outlawing imports from dozens of companies, seizing shipments at the border and releasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/uflpa-entity-list\">public blacklist of the companies<\/a>, mostly operating in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/20\/thousands-of-imports-enter-australia-from-companies-blacklisted-by-us-over-claimed-uyghur-forced-labour-links-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imports of a range of products, including parts for Sydney Metro vehicles, increase despite US bans on dozens of companiesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia is allowing thousands of imports from Chinese companies black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1464,"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":[43,645,50,1767,2052,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-penny-wong","category-uyghurs","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69012","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\/1464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69016,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69012\/revisions\/69016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}