Senate Finance Committee Demands Answers From Automakers on Possible Ties to Xinjiang Forced Labor

The Senate Finance Committee has launched a probe into whether leading automakers are using materials made with forced labor from China’s far west Xinjiang region, where the Chinese regime is engaging in a systematic campaign of repression on Uyghurs and other ethnic Muslim minorities.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, sent letters on Dec. 22 to the top executives of automakers Tesla, General Motors, Ford, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, Toyota, and Volkswagen, reminding them that the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act bars the importation of goods made in Xinjiang unless a company can demonstrate that the items were made without forced labor….}