Chinese battery firms CATL and Gotion High Tech ought to be added immediately to an import ban list, a gaggle of Republican lawmakers said, alleging their supply chains use forced labor, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The lawmakers called for CATL and Gotion, which have ties to Ford and Volkswagen, to be added to what’s generally known as the entity list under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the report said.
In an emailed statement to Reuters, Gotion said any allegation the corporate “uses or is said to forced labor is baseless and absolutely false,”, adding the choice of partners is predicated on “strict review mechanisms and evaluation criteria.”
The list restricts the import of products tied to what the U.S. government has characterised as an ongoing genocide of minorities in China’s Xinjiang region.
Ford, Volkswagen and CATL didn’t immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.
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