The group cited 'credible complaints of forced labor, against Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, which supplies nearly a quarter of the world’s cotton.'ĭina Nudabey, an ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang's Ili prefecture and former detainee in China's vast network of internment camps, said Muji still needs to do more. fall well short of those introduced by Canada and recently strengthened in the United States, namely the prohibition of goods produced wholly or in part by forced labor,' the group said in a commentary last month. and Canada also made coordinated announcements last month to help prevent British and Canadian businesses from being complicit in, or profiting from, human rights violations in Xinjiang, amid growing calls for governments around the world to respond to what rights groups say is systematic and escalating abuses in the region.īut the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the moves weren't enough.

It said the company has other sources of cotton than China, including supply lines in India, Turkey and the U.S.īut it stopped short of saying it would stop using cotton from Xinjiang. 'We are no longer exporting any products containing Xinjiang cotton to the United States, since the order,' the company's public relations team said by e-mail. The ban, which came after reports emerged that the mass incarceration camps in Xinjiang were increasingly linked to lucrative production processes using forced labor, allows customs officials to stop items they believe originate in Xinjiang from entering the U.S. The company said in comments e-mailed to RFA that since the outgoing Trump administration had banned imports of cotton and tomato products from Xinjiang last month, it had stopped exporting items made with Xinjiang cotton there 'to comply with U.S.

Japanese clothing and lifestyle brand Muji says it has stopped exporting cotton sourced in Xinjiang to the United States, but rights groups say the company has done little to remove Xinjiang cotton - which has been linked forced labor by mostly ethnic Uyghur detainees who have committed no crime - from its supply chain.

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