BMW, Jaguar and VW imported banned Xinjiang parts – Senate probe

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BMW, Jaguar and VW imported banned Xinjiang parts – Senate probe

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Image caption, Thousands of Mini Coopers were imported into the US with components from banned ******** firm

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• Author, Peter Hoskins
• Role, Business reporter
• 21 May 2024, 04:19 BST

  Updated 1 hour ago

BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by a supplier on a list of firms banned over alleged links to ******** forced labour, a US congressional report has said.

“Automakers’ self-policing is clearly not doing the job,” the Democrat Senator said.

Jaguar Land Rover told the BBC it “takes human rights and forced labour issues seriously and has an active ongoing programme of human rights protection and anti-slavery measures”.

BMW and VW did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Mr Wyden also urged the US Customs and Border Protection agency to “supercharge enforcement and ****** down on companies that fuel the shameful use of forced labour in China.”

The report added Jaguar Land Rover had imported spare parts which included components from JWD after the company was put on the banned list.

JLR said it has now identified and is destroying any stock it holds around the world that include this component.

In February, VW said thousands of its vehicles, including Porshes and Bentleys, had been held by authorities because they had a component in them that breached America’s anti-forced labour laws.

VW had voluntarily informed customs officials about the issue, the report said.

Congress passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) law in 2021.

The legislation is intended to prevent the import of goods from China’s north-western Xinjiang region that are believed to have been made by people from the Uyghur ********* group in forced labour conditions.

JWD was added to the UFLPA Entity List in December 2023, which means its products are presumed to be made with forced labour.

China has been accused of detaining more than one million Uyghurs in Xinjiang against their will over the past few years.

Authorities have denied all allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

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