{"id":2395,"date":"2021-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/congress-passes-ban-on-goods-from-chinas-xinjiang-region-over-forced-labor-concerns\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:05:24","slug":"congress-passes-ban-on-goods-from-chinas-xinjiang-region-over-forced-labor-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/congress-passes-ban-on-goods-from-chinas-xinjiang-region-over-forced-labor-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"El Congreso aprueba la prohibici\u00f3n de productos de la regi\u00f3n china de Xinjiang por preocupaciones sobre el trabajo forzoso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ng-scope\">WASHINGTON \u2014 El Senado vot\u00f3 por unanimidad el jueves para aprobar una legislaci\u00f3n que prohibir\u00eda la importaci\u00f3n de una amplia gama de productos fabricados en&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/20\/world\/asia\/china-genocide-uighurs-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regi\u00f3n china de Xinjiang<\/a>&nbsp;en una campa\u00f1a para evitar que las empresas obtengan bienes producidos a trav\u00e9s del trabajo forzoso de los perseguidos&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/15\/world\/asia\/icc-china-uighur-muslim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minor\u00edas musulmanas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Su aprobaci\u00f3n fue una victoria para los partidarios de una medida agresiva de derechos humanos que enfrent\u00f3 una feroz campa\u00f1a de cabildeo corporativo por parte de empresas que argumentaron que era demasiado onerosa y que interrumpir\u00eda las cadenas de suministro globales. La votaci\u00f3n envi\u00f3 la medida al escritorio del presidente Biden, donde se esperaba que la firmara como ley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">El proyecto de ley representa la respuesta legislativa m\u00e1s contundente hasta el momento a la campa\u00f1a de China contra los uigures, un grupo \u00e9tnico predominantemente musulm\u00e1n, que la administraci\u00f3n Biden ha calificado de genocidio. Impondr\u00eda un est\u00e1ndar alto para las empresas que buscan importar productos de la regi\u00f3n, prohibiendo los productos fabricados &quot;en su totalidad o en parte&quot; en Xinjiang, a menos que las empresas puedan demostrar a los funcionarios de aduanas que los productos no se fabricaron con trabajo forzado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">\u201cMuchas empresas ya han tomado medidas para limpiar sus cadenas de suministro\u201d, dijo el senador Marco Rubio, republicano de Florida y uno de los autores del proyecto de ley. \u201cNo deber\u00edan tener preocupaciones sobre esta ley. Para aquellos que no han hecho eso, ya no podr\u00e1n seguir haciendo de los estadounidenses, cada uno de nosotros, francamente, c\u00f3mplices involuntarios de las atrocidades, del genocidio que est\u00e1 cometiendo el Partido Comunista Chino\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">La legislaci\u00f3n se hab\u00eda estancado durante meses en el Capitolio, incluso cuando los legisladores denunciaron la severidad de la represi\u00f3n a gran escala de los uigures en China. Esos delitos han incluido la administraci\u00f3n de esterilizaciones y abortos forzados, y la colocaci\u00f3n de uigures y otras minor\u00edas \u00e9tnicas en campos de concentraci\u00f3n, donde han enfrentado tortura y abuso sexual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Pocos funcionarios o empresas quer\u00edan oponerse p\u00fablicamente a la legislaci\u00f3n, desconfiados de la \u00f3ptica de parecer indiferentes al genocidio. Pero detr\u00e1s de escena, el est\u00e1ndar estricto del proyecto de ley, que supone que todos los bienes producidos en la regi\u00f3n se fabrican con trabajo forzado a menos que las empresas puedan demostrar lo contrario, alarm\u00f3 a algunas corporaciones, legisladores y funcionarios de la administraci\u00f3n de Biden que tem\u00edan que fuera demasiado amplio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Aproximadamente una de cada cinco prendas de algod\u00f3n vendidas a nivel mundial contiene algod\u00f3n o hilo de&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/topic\/subject\/uighurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xinjiang<\/a>, y la regi\u00f3n produce un&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/08\/business\/economy\/china-solar-companies-forced-labor-xinjiang.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">una porci\u00f3n significativa<\/a>&nbsp;del polisilicio del mundo, que se utiliza para fabricar paneles solares y tel\u00e9fonos inteligentes. A algunos funcionarios de la administraci\u00f3n les preocupaba que el est\u00e1ndar en el coraz\u00f3n del proyecto de ley paralizara las cadenas de suministro ya interrumpidas y creara obst\u00e1culos adicionales para cumplir con los objetivos clim\u00e1ticos de la naci\u00f3n, seg\u00fan asesores del Congreso familiarizados con las discusiones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Empresas que incluyen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/29\/business\/economy\/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nike, Coca-Cola y Apple<\/a>&nbsp;tambi\u00e9n presion\u00f3 al Congreso en un intento de debilitar esa disposici\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Pero los legisladores se unieron en torno a una versi\u00f3n de compromiso de la legislaci\u00f3n a principios de esta semana y la impulsaron, un estallido de impulso que se produjo despu\u00e9s de que Rubio retrasara la consideraci\u00f3n del proyecto de ley anual de pol\u00edtica de defensa, exigiendo que el Senado dirija su atenci\u00f3n a la medida de trabajo forzoso. .<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">La versi\u00f3n final mantuvo el estricto est\u00e1ndar de importaci\u00f3n para las empresas, pero elimin\u00f3 una medida relacionada que habr\u00eda requerido que las empresas revelaran cualquier participaci\u00f3n en una amplia gama de actividades realizadas en la regi\u00f3n de Xinjiang. Ese requisito de presentaci\u00f3n de informes, al que se opusieron con vehemencia las grandes empresas, se encontr\u00f3 con la resistencia de algunos legisladores en el Comit\u00e9 de Finanzas del Senado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">A principios de esta semana, Jen Psaki, la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, confirm\u00f3 en un comunicado que Biden firmar\u00eda el proyecto de ley y se\u00f1al\u00f3 que la Casa Blanca hab\u00eda&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/24\/business\/economy\/china-forced-labor-solar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antes reprimido&nbsp;<\/a>sobre el trabajo forzoso en la cadena de suministro de paneles solares fabricados en Xinjiang mediante la prohibici\u00f3n de productos fabricados por empresas espec\u00edficas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">\u201cLa administraci\u00f3n trabajar\u00e1 en estrecha colaboraci\u00f3n con el Congreso para implementar este proyecto de ley a fin de garantizar que las cadenas de suministro globales est\u00e9n libres de trabajo forzoso, mientras trabaja simult\u00e1neamente en las cadenas de suministro clave en tierra y en terceros pa\u00edses, incluidos los semiconductores y la energ\u00eda limpia\u201d, dijo la Sra. Psaki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">El drama legislativo persigui\u00f3 la legislaci\u00f3n hasta el final. Los intentos de Rubio de acelerar la aprobaci\u00f3n del proyecto de ley el mi\u00e9rcoles fueron detenidos por el senador dem\u00f3crata de Oreg\u00f3n Ron Wyden, quien trat\u00f3 de adjuntar una extensi\u00f3n del pago del cr\u00e9dito tributario por hijos que vence, a la que los republicanos se oponen ampliamente, a la medida contra el trabajo forzado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">\u201cLlevar a cabo este proyecto de ley y convertirlo en ley garantiza que los consumidores y las empresas estadounidenses puedan comprar bienes sin ser c\u00f3mplices involuntarios de los horribles abusos de los derechos humanos por parte de China\u201d, dijo el senador Jeff Merkley, dem\u00f3crata de Oreg\u00f3n y copatrocinador de la legislaci\u00f3n. \u201cMientras el gobierno chino trata de encubrir su genocidio y reclamar una victoria propagand\u00edstica con los pr\u00f3ximos Juegos Ol\u00edmpicos, esta legislaci\u00f3n env\u00eda un poderoso mensaje bipartidista de que Estados Unidos no se har\u00e1 de la vista gorda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/16\/us\/politics\/congress-uyghur-forced-labor.html?partner=bloomberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haga clic aqu\u00ed<\/a>&nbsp;para ver la historia tal como apareci\u00f3 en el sitio web del New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Copyright 2021 The New York Times Company<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; The Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to approve legislation that would ban the import of a wide array of products made in&nbsp;China&rsquo;s Xinjiang region&nbsp;in a drive to prevent companies from sourcing goods produced through forced labor by persecuted&nbsp;Muslim minorities. 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