Date Deception

August 28, 2022

In fact, a new report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project , a Washington D.C.-based research and advocacy group, has identified more than 70 different brands of Xinjiang-grown or processed red dates in supermarkets in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area alone.

“It is illegal for any U.S. person to have financial transactions with the XPCC. And yet, importers are transacting in their products.” — Louisa Greve, director of global advocacy at the Uyghur Human Rights Project.

“The bottom line is, there are products on American store shelves showing the name of a sanctioned Chinese paramilitary group involved in forced labor,” says Louisa Greve , director of global advocacy at the Uyghur Human Rights Project. “This is an entity not only facing import restrictions under the UFLPA, but that is sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act. It is illegal for any U.S. person to have financial transactions with the XPCC. And yet, importers are transacting in their products.”

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