filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml • 9 months agoEU reaches deal on forced labour ban, with China’s Xinjiang in its sightsexternal-linkmessage-square15 fedilinkarrow-up129
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minus-squarefiloria@lemmy.mlhexagonhexbear38·9 months agoThe funniest part about this ban is that it puts intense scrutiny on US supply chains, which are heavily reliant on prison labour. linkfedilink
minus-squareInfamousblt [any]hexbear31·9 months agoI was gonna say, are they targeting the US then, which has one of the world's largest slave labor populations? Somehow I doubt they'll actually take action against the US for all the slave labor that happens there. link
minus-squareknfrmity@lemmygrad.mlhexbear15·9 months agoThere will just be an exemption for supply chains with US elements. linkfedilink
The funniest part about this ban is that it puts intense scrutiny on US supply chains, which are heavily reliant on prison labour.
I was gonna say, are they targeting the US then, which has one of the world's largest slave labor populations? Somehow I doubt they'll actually take action against the US for all the slave labor that happens there.
There will just be an exemption for supply chains with US elements.