Report: Nike Lobbied Against Anti-China Bill Banning Import Of Products Made By Forced Uyghur Labor

Nike, as well as several other American mega-corporations, including Coca-Cola and Apple, lobbied to weaken a bill aimed at preventing American companies from importing products made in Chinese labor camps, including camps home to as many as one million Uyghurs, a persecuted ethnically Muslim minority.

“Nike, Coca-Cola, and Apple all sought to weaken proposed legislation aimed at barring US companies from relying on the forced labor of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang region, Business Insider reports.  The bill would “ban US companies from importing a wide range of goods made in Xinjiang, where China has been accused of mass human rights violations unless companies can prove that the goods weren’t made using forced labor.”