The White House has banned products manufactured by Hoshine Silicon Industry Co., Ltd, due to to the alleged use of forced labor, widespread sexual abuse, genocide and detention.
FACT SHEET: New U.S. Government Actions on Forced Labor in Xinjiang
JUNE 24, 2021•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
At the recent G7 Summit in Cornwall, United Kingdom, the world’s leading democracies stood united against forced labor, including in Xinjiang, and committed to ensure global supply chains are free from the use of forced labor. The United States is translating these commitments into action. The Biden-Harris administration is taking additional steps to hold those who engage in forced labor accountable and ensure that we continue to remove goods made with forced labor from our supply chains through actions by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Labor.
Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/24/fact-sheet-new-u-s-government-actions-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/
These actions demonstrate our commitment to imposing additional costs on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for engaging in cruel and inhumane forced labor practices and ensuring that Beijing plays by the rules of fair trade as part of the rules-based international order. The United States believes that state-sponsored forced labor in Xinjiang is both an affront to human dignity and an example of the PRC’s unfair economic practices. The PRC’s use of forced labor in Xinjiang is an integral part of its systematic abuses against the Uyghur population and other ethnic and religious minority groups, and addressing these abuses will remain a high priority for the Biden-Harris administration. The systematic abuses go beyond forced labor to include sexual violence and large-scale forced detentions, and the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.
The PRC’s forced labor practices run counter to our values as a nation and expose American consumers to unethical practices. They also leave American businesses and workers to compete on an uneven playing field by allowing firms to gain advantage over their competitors by exploiting workers and artificially suppressing wages. The United States will not tolerate forced labor in our supply chains and will continue to stand up for our values and for U.S. workers and businesses. This includes maintaining support for the development of transparent and diverse clean energy supply chains at home free of forced labor — and supporting President Biden’s commitment to bold climate action, the domestic solar industry, and the jobs this vital industry creates.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Issues Withhold Release Order (WRO): CBP has issued a WRO on silica-based products made by Hoshine Silicon Industry Co., Ltd., a company located in Xinjiang, and its subsidiaries. This WRO is based on information reasonably indicating that Hoshine used forced labor to manufacture silica-based products. As a result, personnel at all U.S. ports of entry have been instructed to immediately begin detaining shipments that contain silica-based products made by Hoshine or materials and goods derived from or produced using those silica-based products. CBP investigates allegations of forced labor in U.S. supply chains and will continue investigating allegations in the polysilicon industry and other industries in Xinjiang and elsewhere.
CBP’s forced labor investigations have produced six Withhold Release Orders in Fiscal Year 2021, including one on cotton and tomato products from the Xinjiang region, another on cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and one on the Dalian Ocean Fishing Co., Ltd. As demonstrated by the Dalian WRO, the United States is also taking action to combat the PRC’s use of forced labor beyond Xinjiang – including in the seafood industry. Currently, 35 of 49 active WROs are on goods from the PRC, and 11 WROs are on goods made by forced labor from Xinjiang.
Department of Commerce Updates its Entity List: The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security added to the Entity List five PRC entities: Hoshine Silicon Industry (Shanshan); Xinjiang Daqo New Energy; Xinjiang East Hope Nonferrous Metals; Xinjiang GCL New Energy Material Technology, and XPCC— for participating in the practice of, accepting, or utilizing forced labor in Xinjiang and contributing to human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang. This action, which follows the 48 PRC entities previously added to the Entity List for their connections to human rights abuses in Xinjiang, restricts the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of commodities, software, and technology subject to the Export Administration Regulations where such entities are a party to the transactions (e.g., end-user, purchaser, intermediate or ultimate consignee).
Department of Labor Updates the “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor”: The Department of Labor has published a Federal Register Notice updating its “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor,” to include polysilicon produced with forced labor in the PRC. Every two years, the Department of Labor publishes an updated list of goods produced by child labor or forced labor in violation of international standards. This update is the first time a good has been added outside of that two-year cycle, highlighting its strong response to the severity of the ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang. The report currently includes other products from the PRC that have links to forced labor in Xinjiang or by Uyghur workers transferred to other parts of the PRC, including cotton, garments, footwear, electronics, gloves, hair products, textiles, thread/yarn, and tomato products.
How are we going to continue enjoying the rapid cost reductions of solar energy? Won’t this fry the planet?
You really should add a /sarc tag. Poe’s Law and all that…
Exactly. How can you achieve a socialist utopia without slaves?
I’ve been trying to divine that number for a while.
The Malthusians desire a sub 500,000,000 global population, of that number, what percentage are the designated slaves who keep the stables clean?
97%
I get the “97%” reference as in The Science, but 15 million elite seems excessive. Maybe if you include 14.5 million soldiers as the lowest rank of the elite.
I strongly suspect that, even if the panels themselves were free, solar would still be uneconomic.
One thing is for sure, as solar panels are increasingly found on residential roofs (of virtue signalling Liberals) the incidence of injuries from falling will skyrocket. In windstorm prone areas the incidence of people being hit by flying panels will also rise.
So, are you saying that Anthony Watts is a virtue signaling Liberal?
JWurts
Read it again. I said nothing of the sort. It’s simple English. If reading is hard for you, ask a grown up.
Rory, I’m not trying to start a fight.
You said…”solar panels are increasingly found on residential roofs (of virtue signalling Liberals)…”
I am just saying that 13 years ago…”Anthony has mentioned previously that he installed solar panels on his roof and, when he was a Trustee for Chico Unified School District, he spearheaded their first ever solar power installation at Little Chico Creek Elementary School.”…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/20/emerging-solar-panel-technology/
It seems to me then that you must include him in your category of ‘virtue signalling Liberals?
Best
That’s not even close to logical, in fact, our beloved CM would call it intellectual baby talk.
Solar panels are found on the roofs of virtue-signalling liberals but not only on the roofs of virtue signalling liberals.
If he’s not a Liberal, he can hardly be a “virtue signalling Liberal”, can he? Obviously there are some circumstances where solar can be practical. I doubt that Tony has any interest in converting the US Grid to “renewables”. Liberals do all sorts of virtue signalling. like buying Teslas to impress their friends.
No, you’re being purposely agitative. A “virtue signalling liberal” is just that. Anth*ny isn’t that, and you know it.
You missed my favorite, a ton of snow slides off the panels and leaves a huge dent in the roof of your car.
Oh, YES … I love that one … and it’s your Tesla as well. Or the snow slides off and buries the neighbour’s cat – dog – obnoxious child.
“Clean” Energy Exploitations
Newly released book helps citizens understand the environmental degradation and humanity abuses that support “clean” energy.
Just for the opportunity to generate intermittent electricity dependent on favorable weather conditions, the wealthier and healthier countries like Germany, Australia, Britain, and the U.S. continue exploiting the most vulnerable people and environments globally.
https://www.cfact.org/2021/06/13/clean-energy-exploitations/
If our “betters” did not practice eco-colonialism, who would the next generations have to disparage?
In the UK, they’re still blaming Thatcher for saving us from ourselves
Biden needs to take a look at the mining techniques used by the Chinese to corner the market on rare earth elements necessary for his green utopia.
RE ore mining is not the problem. It is chemically extracting the RE from the ore in an environmentally sound way. They don’t, we did, and so lost on cost.
I consider extracting the mineral from the ore as part of the mining process.
Yes, David, I see where you’re coming from but some materials are mined in one country and process or have the goodies extracted from them in another. A good example is Lynas in Australian. It mines it’s raw materials from a very unusual deposit in Western Australia but sends this to Malaysia where the valuable rare earths are extracted.
There are currently plans to do this second stage in Texas I think for the future.
it offshored due to labor costs
then got shutdown due to morons screaming the sand was radioactive
and the plant in WA is either running or about to be
I think Biden has already got enough on his plate with the problems of dressing himself and finding the potty in time. The other stuff of his presidency is best left to his minders.
Don’t forget naps.
Rory, LMFAO!
My guess is they show up coming in as another country’s product. The old money laundering model and it won’t make a difference one way or another.
Globalisation in action!
Bingo! China has been doing precisely that on other bans for years.
Lots of forced workers and human trafficking coming up from our Southern border also, though Biden seems to be in favor of this exploitation.
Come on man! Only when he benefits…
His son’s needing a new management job.
So Biden bans one Chinese company from selling forced labour panels in the US? What about the other companies using forced labour components in theirs? Or what’s to stop Hoshine putting another companies labels on them and selling them anyway?
Another example of virtue signalling at the G7 level without actually accomplishing anything.
It looks like both the Republicans and Democrats favor a tough stand against China. In that light, we can view human rights as a stick with which to beat China. So, it’s not just virtue signaling.
casus belli
Six hundred thousand dead Americans from an engineered bioweapon isn’t justification?
That one may have been inflicted on us by Fauci. 😉
There are lots of very good reasons why China is a problem. The trouble is that many of them make people’s eyes glaze over. Commercial espionage comes to mind in that regard. Most people haven’t a clue about why that’s so important. Same thing with the South China Sea.
So there’s a steady drum beat about China’s treatment of its largely Muslim minority. It’s a compelling story and China doesn’t have a good answer.
If it were really all about human rights, we would also be complaining about the treatment of Christians in India. Crickets.
True but this is not a ‘tough stand against China’ – it’s the bare minimum to satisfy their supporters that ‘something’ is being done whilst not actually antagonizing China.
The CCP runs China…the CCP and the Chinese military are the same entity….any corporation in China that has any asset valuable to the CCP will give that asset willingly and promptly. So, blocking some solar panel company is how different from….for instance, Nike which uses Chinese companies to manufacture goods. The bottom line is any American company trading with China is helping the CCP…..and using slave labor as an excuse for a particular no trade is meaningless….and remember, the CCP is treacherous….goods from Myanmar…Vietnam…may be falsely labelled and really from China.
If China paid their workers, then solar energy wouldn’t be “free” now would it?
(sarc)
That’s a way to create Biden’s promised high-paying solar jobs.
So the United States doesn’t like pipe lines, doesn’t like nuclear, doesn’t like methane, doesn’t like coal, doesn’t like oil, doesn’t like dams, and doesn’t like Chinese products.
The United States of America is throwing a genuine “I want what I want when I want it.” tantrum.
Does this mean that you approve of slave labor?
Most people, when offered two similar/identical products, will chose the low cost option … so yes, we all approve of slave labour … as long as we can’t see it directly.
There are numerically more slaves now, than at any time in history.
That is similar to an observation I have long made that people want to be lied to with the caveat that they don’t know that they are being lied to.
But is it slave-slave labor? This is reminiscent of the liberal apology offered in defense of the director who sodomized an underage teen girl. Thank Stork, at least she is not with “burden”, and can be kept appointed, available, and taxable.
Not the whole Untied States, just the 80 million or so who voted for Joe Biden.
Joey’s votes are kinda sketchy…and Joey of course is not interested in proving his vote is “legitimate”. He is a sketchy prez advocating a sketchy climate warming story…..and worrying a lot that he might get in trouble with his handlers.
Allegedly
the 80 million or so (alive or dead) who voted for Joe Biden.
Fixed.
Well said. And Tantrums don’t allow the time and study needed to understand complex situations.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/05/15/renewable-energy-china/
It looks as if the green activists want us to assume a monastic lifestyle of Poverty, Casting and Obedience.
Poverty: except for the elite.
Obedience: we will have to do what we are told both in lifestyle and diet.
Chastity: I think they have lost that one.
Poverty, CHASTITY and Obedience
D… autocorrect
Yep, auto-corrupt strikes again.
“Chastity: I think they have lost that one.”
The 62+ million terminated chastity failures in the US since Roe vs. Wade suggest you are correct.
Oh chastity. I thought we were up for a fishing trip there for a moment.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/breaking-news/amazon-hydropower-plant-contributes-significant-greenhouse-emissions-study/news-story/bf065392e4fcb9e370abf1afa48f200a
now the greentards are after hydro?
Of course they are.
Perhaps you labor under the misapprehension that greentards can tolerate any energy source that could allow modern civilization to continue?
President Biden Bans Imports of Chinese Forced Labor Manufactured Solar Panels
Are there some other made in America Solyndra (s) plural waiting in the wings to be beneficiaries of Biden’s GND?
There must be, so those “high paying union jobs” can actually happen.
Well, not yet. The Solyndra model is you pay off some campaign contributors by arranging for them to get loans, guaranteed by the government, that they have no intention of repaying. Then the cronies pay themselves exorbitant salaries from the borrowed money, buy some materials from naive suppliers that never get paid for, and “discover” that the technology isn’t remotely competitive. Then skip off into the sunset to plot the next exploitation of government subsidies.
I’m still trying to get a handle on where all our covid money went. Reports that ~$400 Billion of covid money found it’s way to the Russian and Chinese mobs doesn’t bode well for continued mega-billion taxpayer dollar projects.
Went to the DNC/Obama/Clinton Foundations. Washed, dried & ready for distribution.
Hunter will be pissed off. wasn.t hew supposed to keep “the big guy” on message
He’s pissed off that his father misplaced the crack pipe.
Slave labour or not, wind and solar hardware and their replacements must come from a source using fossil fuels, nuclear or hydro because the energy return on energy invested ratio (including storage) means wind and solar in effect cannot ‘reproduce’ themselves.
A lot of this may be just toothless Biden showtime. Three reasons:
It’s a giant misunderstanding , they thought it was a ban against “forced rabor”
Bidencares a la Obamacares with progressive prices, affordability, and availability.
Is Donald Trump stll a racist for singling out China?
Hunter must have some interests in Ukrainian made solar panels.
I demand that all rooftop solar panels made with slave labor be taken down now, and faster than statue removals.
So you mean to tell me the federal government has been subsidizing slave labor camps. Shame on the greens!
I believe that the forced labor refers to the Uighurs in western China being “re-educated” and forced to work in those factories. Could be other people, too.
Almost certainly ‘other people’ as well. Convicts, political prisoners, anyone ‘the party’ doesn’t want at liberty – quite a lot of ‘other people’ are going to be the ‘forced labour’ in the headline, not just Uighur’s.
Though of course the USA is one of the world’s largest users of convict labour
Proof?
Ignore the troll
I so enjoy kicking leftist trolls in their fecal stained teeth, and griffiepoo stopped responding after I owned it’s a$$ repeatedly a couple years ago. I do like when the idiot links to things that prove the exact opposite of what it claims.
Re-education is a worthy tool. Unfortunately, not everybody survives.
They own nothing, and they’re happy…10 years early.
Which panels and components are Gore and Kerry using in their oversized arrays? The same goes for caprio and the Kennedys and Sheldon shitehouse.
This is off-topic and I apologise for breaking the rules but I thought it was worth recording in real time.
The term ‘climate change’ has been used in an article on the Miami building collapse on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website published today at 5:43 am EST, it could be a world first, maybe?
Prior to the AGW scam there would be nothing wrong with the use of ‘climate change’ or even destructive weather. Barrier islands do change, sometimes substantially. In today’s world, such terms are infused with meaning of the CO2 – man is bad theme. Reporting becomes cumbersome if one tries to avoid these nuances.
its the rabid warmist ABC
its only ever a matter of minutes before one of theirs blames climate for ANYthing on the days news
I’m so happy to see a principled stand in this regard that I have no intention of making a snide comment of any kind. Good for Biden!
I can’t believe it. He actually did something I agree with. Now what’s the catch?
Not enough? Not nearly enough? He’s frankly just weeing into the wind in a token, fairly useless, gesture.
Wouldn’t that be all Chinese products? Bar non.
Now just a darn picken minute there sonny …
If Child Labor sourced goods and minerals is excluded from importable products, how will we ever be able to buy sufficient BATTERY BACKUP or EV BATTERIES to make Solar viable and eliminate Fossil Energy in Transportation
What will all those Congolese Children do for work???
Think of the Kiddiekins
You’d also better ditch your cell phone and a batch of your consumer electronics, if you really want to stand up against child labour… the minerals don’t just go in renewables etc
The Griffendope is apparently not only irony-deficient, but has a mile-wide sarc-chasm as well.
I’m pretty sure the grifter is in Slytherin.
How long will it take for the CCP to order new stick on nametags that cover the tags saying “Hoshine Silicon Industry (Shanshan); Xinjiang Daqo New Energy; Xinjiang East Hope Nonferrous Metals; Xinjiang GCL New Energy Material Technology, and XPCC” with tags that say made by Shanghai #4 Happy Not Slaves, Honest, Solar cell company?
Then the question is how many slave laborers does it take to replace the labels on a ship full of solar panels.
I recon with his clear mental dysfunction he’ll not be PotUS at the end of this year.
God help us if you’re right. Worse waits in the wings.
Rumors already abound (leaked) that Chameleon Harris will be POTUS by 2022 at latest.
Everybody knows that the slavery ones are red, the good ones are blue? Easy to verify.
no worries
china can change the name etc on it overnight
and if you dont buy theirs??
well solyndra turned turtle so where?
Biden leans ominously into the mike, winking at the nearest young female reporter and sensuously whispers: “ come on man, we’re gunna stop those four stablers from bringing their dog-faced ponies to my state of uh…. where am I…. I mean four stablers? Why not three….. ice cream, yes please…. I’m going to be in trouble again, no desert for uncle Joe, where’s my……. you know…. forskin and seven bears ….or something.. mumble.”
This decision by Biden looks like a big deal to me, given that domestic solar panel suppliers are few in number (are there any?). It should send a strong message to the Chinese (though they’ll probably find a way round it).
He’ll be banning imports from far more Chinese companies to prop businesses of donors and cronies who want to build solar panels in Georgia,
Going to ban cobalt mined by kids too Joe? There goes your GND right down the pan,
No need to ban anything. Just restrict federal solar panel subsidies to installations that are 100% made in the USA.