Exclusive Us Blocks More Than 1 000 Solar Shipments Over Chinese Slave Labor Concerns
The level of the seizures, which has not been previously reported, reflects how a policy aimed at pressuring Beijing over Uyghur detention camps in Xinjiang risks slowing the Biden administration’s efforts to free up the US energy sector to fight climate change. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized 1,053 shipments of solar equipment between June 21, when the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act went into effect, and Oct. 25, he told Reuters in response to a request public records, adding that none of the shipments have yet been released....