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Business Matters: US Congress passes Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

US Congress passes Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

17/12/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, US Congress passes Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

Importers of goods made in Xinjiang must prove that coerced workers didn't make them

The act forces importers of goods or ingredients made in Xinjiang to prove that coerced workers weren't involved in the manufacturing process.

The US Congress has passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which forces importers of goods or ingredients made in Xinjiang to prove that coerced workers weren't involved in the manufacturing process. We get analysis from Isaac Stone Fish, CEO at Strategy Risks in Washington DC. Plus, we meet some of those affected by rising prices in Turkey as interest rates are cut again; the BBC's Victoria Craig is in Istanbul, and reports on the country's unorthodox approach to monetary policy. Also in the programme, meat products like corned beef and beef jerky are popular in many parts of the world- and a lot of them come from Brazil. Concerns have been voiced for years about the scale of cattle-rearing for meat production on land that's been illegally cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, several large European supermarket chains have said they will stop selling any beef products from Brazil. We hear from Dr Ane Alencar, from the Amazonian Environmental Research Institute in Brazil. And entertainment journalist, Caroline Frost, tells us about a new golden age for television production in the UK, powered by the huge budgets of the streaming services.  Plus, we're joined throughout the programme by Takara Small, a tech reporter and podcast host in Toronto. And Timothy Martin, Korea Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal joins us from Seoul. (Image of US Congress, Image via Getty Images).

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