Republican lawmakers in the United States are calling on Joe Biden’s government to go a step further in the sanctions crisis against the Chinese auto sector and are requesting to add electric car battery suppliers to Ford and Volkswagen, CATL and Gotion, to your list of banned companies.
For the Republicans, CATL –partner of ford— and Gotion High Tech – a company in which Volkswagen has a stake – should be added to the list of Chinese firms with which companies operating in US territory are prohibited from trading.
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Specifically, what legislators such as John Moolennarthe senator Frame Blond either Mark Green is to, allegedly, contain forced labor in the operations of their respective supply chains.
“Any suggestion that CATL has used forced labor, or that it has any connection with forced labor, is absolutely false,” a CATL spokesperson commented to the American newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’ where the first information about the case appeared.
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CATL has reiterated in recent months that they are “prepared” for the next geopolitical crises arising from trade tensions between China and Western countries, in fact, believe they will be able to overcome them as they expand their operations in the United States and Europe, preparing the ground for a future rebound in demand for electric vehicles.
However, if CATL and Gotion finally end up included in the ‘blacklist’ of Chinese importers in the United States, it could complicate their efforts to increase their market share worldwide through penetration into new markets.
Republicans say CATL and Gotion have ties to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a paramilitary organization in Xinjiang that state Joined has sanctioned and added to the list of prohibited entities.
