The legislation is seemingly embedded in the presumption that goods from Xinjiang are invariably made with forced labour. Business enterprises will have to prove that forced labour, including that that by workers transferred from Xinjiang, was not used in manufacturing the product before it is allowed into the United States.
China will also cut import tariffs for a range of other products including some high-tech components from January 2020 onwards.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters came back to streets on Sunday for a series of marches and rallies after a rare period of calm in nearly six months of unrest.
The November’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 50.2, up from 49.3 last month, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
Alibaba will sell 500 million shares to investors at HK dollar176, according to Bloomberg News, below the maximum HK dollar 188 of its indicative price range.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has previously called China’s treatment of Uighurs one of the 'worst stains on the world' and likened the camps to actions by Nazi Germany.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that China has 'forcibly detained over one million Muslims in a brutal, systematic campaign to erase religion and culture in Xinjiang'.
The new managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva warned of an economic slowdown in 2019 in 90 per cent of the world.
China has hiked its military spending by seven per cent to USD 152 billion as Beijing aims at countering America's push into the disputed South China Sea.
