白宫
华盛顿哥伦比亚特区
2021年6月24日
最近，世界主要民主政体在英国康沃尔（Cornwall）举行7国集团峰会（G7 Summit）期间一致表示反对强迫劳动，包括新疆的强迫劳动，并承诺保障全球供应链不存在使用强迫劳动的情况。美国正在将有关承诺转化为行动。拜登–哈里斯（Biden-Harris）政府正在采取更多的步骤，要求参与实施强迫劳动的有关方面承担责任，确保我们继续通过国土安全部（Department of Homeland Security）美国海关和边境保护局（U.S. Customs and Border Protection）、商务部（Department of Commerce）和劳工部（Department of Labor）采取行动，从我们的供应链中剔除使用强迫劳动制造的产品。
这些行动表明我们要求中华人民共和国为采取残酷和不人道的强迫劳动行为承担更大代价的承诺，促使北京遵守有规可循的国际秩序，奉行公平贸易的规则。美国相信，新疆采取受到国家支持的强迫劳动侵犯了人类尊严，同时也是中华人民共和国不公平经济行为的表现。中华人民共和国在新疆使用强迫劳是其系统性践踏维吾尔人及其他少数民族和宗教权利的组成部分。要求制止这些侵权行为仍然是拜登–哈里斯政府的一项重要事务。系统性的侵权行为不仅仅表现为强迫劳动，还包括性暴力和大规模强迫拘押。同时中华人民共和国继续在新疆从事种族灭绝活动和危害人类的罪行。
中华人民共和国采取强迫劳动的行为违背了我国的整体价值观，使美国消费者受到不道德行为的危害。另外，这些行为还允许公司通过剥削工人和人为压低工资的手段取得压倒竞争对手的优势，使美国工商业和工人在不公平的条件下进行竞争。美国绝不允许我们的供应链上存在强迫劳动的行为，并要求继续为美国工人和工商业捍卫我们的价值观。其中包括一如既往支持在国内发展不存在强迫劳动的透明和多样性清洁能源供应链——并支持拜登总统承诺的具有胆略的气候行动、国内太阳能工业及这个重要工业部门创造的工作机会。
美国海关和边境保护局发布暂扣令（Withhold Release Order）：海关和边境保护局已对位于新疆的合盛硅业股份有限公司（Hoshine Silicon Industry Co., Ltd.）及其附属企业生产的硅基产品发布暂扣令。此暂扣令的依据是合理地指出合盛公司使用强迫劳动制造硅基产品的信息。为此，美国所有入境口岸的人员已接受指令，立即开始扣押含有合盛公司生产的硅基产品或来自这些硅基产品或使用这些硅基产品生产的材料和商品的货运。海关和边境保护局负责调查美国供应链中涉案的强迫劳动行为，并将继续调查新疆等地多晶硅工业和其他工业的涉案行为。
2021年财政年度，海关和边境保护局通过对强迫劳动问题进行的调查已发布6项暂扣令，其中一项涉及新疆地区的棉花和番茄产品，一项涉及原产新疆生产建设兵团的棉花产品，另一项涉及大连远洋渔业金枪鱼钓有限公司（Dalian Ocean Fishing Co., Ltd.）。涉及大连的暂扣令表明，美国还为反对中华人民共和国在新疆以外地区使用强迫劳动的行为采取行动——包括海产行业。目前，有效的49项暂扣令中有35项涉及来自中华人民共和国的商品，11项涉及来自新疆强迫劳动生产的商品。
商务部增订实体清单（Entity List）：商务部工业和安全局（Bureau of Industry and Security）增订的实体清单已列入中华人民共和国的5个实体：合盛硅业（鄯善）；新疆大全新能源（Xinjiang Daqo New Energy）；新疆东方希望有色金属（Xinjiang East Hope Nonferrous Metals）；新疆协鑫新能源材料科技（Xinjiang GCL New Energy Material Technology）和新疆生产建设兵团——因参与在新疆实行、接受或使用强迫劳动，助长践踏新疆维吾尔人和其他少数群体人权的行为。继以往中华人民共和国48个实体因与新疆践踏人权行为有联系被列入实体清单后，这项行动按出口管制条例（Export Administration Regulations）对这类实体作为交易一方（如终端用户、购买方、中间商或最终收货方）从事的商品、软件和技术的出口、再出口或境内转让实施限制。
劳工部增订“童工或强迫劳动产品清单”（List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor）”  ：劳工部已发布联邦记事公告（Federal Register Notice），增订“童工或强迫劳动产品清单”，列入中华人民共和国使用强迫劳动生产的多晶硅。劳工部对违反国际标准使用童工或强迫劳动生产的产品，每2年公布一次增订清单。这次增订的清单第一次在2年周期以外列入一项产品，强调表明对持续践踏新疆维吾尔人和其他少数群体人权的行为之严重性做出的强烈反应。该报告目前包括来自中华人民共和国与新疆强迫劳动有联系或由转移至中华人民共和国其他地区的维吾尔人生产的其他产品，包括棉花、服装、鞋类、电子用品、手套、护发品、纺织品、棉纱/毛线和番茄产品。 
欲查看原稿内容:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/24/fact-sheet-new-u-s-government-actions-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/

FACT SHEET: New U.S. Government Actions on Forced Labor in Xinjiang
JUNE 24, 2021
At the recent G7 Summit in Cornwall, United Kingdom, the world’s leading democracies stood united against forced labor, including in Xinjiang, and committed to ensure global supply chains are free from the use of forced labor. The United States is translating these commitments into action. The Biden-Harris administration is taking additional steps to hold those who engage in forced labor accountable and ensure that we continue to remove goods made with forced labor from our supply chains through actions by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Labor.
These actions demonstrate our commitment to imposing additional costs on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for engaging in cruel and inhumane forced labor practices and ensuring that Beijing plays by the rules of fair trade as part of the rules-based international order. The United States believes that state-sponsored forced labor in Xinjiang is both an affront to human dignity and an example of the PRC’s unfair economic practices. The PRC’s use of forced labor in Xinjiang is an integral part of its systematic abuses against the Uyghur population and other ethnic and religious minority groups, and addressing these abuses will remain a high priority for the Biden-Harris administration. The systematic abuses go beyond forced labor to include sexual violence and large-scale forced detentions, and the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.
The PRC’s forced labor practices run counter to our values as a nation and expose American consumers to unethical practices. They also leave American businesses and workers to compete on an uneven playing field by allowing firms to gain advantage over their competitors by exploiting workers and artificially suppressing wages. The United States will not tolerate forced labor in our supply chains and will continue to stand up for our values and for U.S. workers and businesses. This includes maintaining support for the development of transparent and diverse clean energy supply chains at home free of forced labor — and supporting President Biden’s commitment to bold climate action, the domestic solar industry, and the jobs this vital industry creates.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Issues Withhold Release Order (WRO): CBP has issued a WRO on silica-based products made by Hoshine Silicon Industry Co., Ltd., a company located in Xinjiang, and its subsidiaries. This WRO is based on information reasonably indicating that Hoshine used forced labor to manufacture silica-based products. As a result, personnel at all U.S. ports of entry have been instructed to immediately begin detaining shipments that contain silica-based products made by Hoshine or materials and goods derived from or produced using those silica-based products. CBP investigates allegations of forced labor in U.S. supply chains and will continue investigating allegations in the polysilicon industry and other industries in Xinjiang and elsewhere.
CBP’s forced labor investigations have produced six Withhold Release Orders in Fiscal Year 2021, including one on cotton and tomato products from the Xinjiang region, another on cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and one on the Dalian Ocean Fishing Co., Ltd. As demonstrated by the Dalian WRO, the United States is also taking action to combat the PRC’s use of forced labor beyond Xinjiang – including in the seafood industry. Currently, 35 of 49 active WROs are on goods from the PRC, and 11 WROs are on goods made by forced labor from Xinjiang.
Department of Commerce Updates its Entity List: The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security added to the Entity List five PRC entities: Hoshine Silicon Industry (Shanshan); Xinjiang Daqo New Energy; Xinjiang East Hope Nonferrous Metals; Xinjiang GCL New Energy Material Technology, and XPCC— for participating in the practice of, accepting, or utilizing forced labor in Xinjiang and contributing to human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang. This action, which follows the 48 PRC entities previously added to the Entity List for their connections to human rights abuses in Xinjiang, restricts the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of commodities, software, and technology subject to the Export Administration Regulations where such entities are a party to the transactions (e.g., end-user, purchaser, intermediate or ultimate consignee).
Department of Labor Updates the “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor”: The Department of Labor has published a Federal Register Notice updating its “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor,” to include polysilicon produced with forced labor in the PRC. Every two years, the Department of Labor publishes an updated list of goods produced by child labor or forced labor in violation of international standards. This update is the first time a good has been added outside of that two-year cycle, highlighting its strong response to the severity of the ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang. The report currently includes other products from the PRC that have links to forced labor in Xinjiang or by Uyghur workers transferred to other parts of the PRC, including cotton, garments, footwear, electronics, gloves, hair products, textiles, thread/yarn, and tomato products.
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