Risk Analytics Company Says Chinese Seafood Exporter to US Signs Deal to Export Xinjiang Salmon
Companies based in China’s Xinjiang province recently signed deals with companies located elsewhere in China to export Xinjiang-origin food products that are made with forced labor, said Kharon, a risk data and risk management software company, in an alert Nov. 21. Chinese news reports coming out of an expo held in Xinjiang’s capital in September indicate Xinjiang Tianyun Organic Agriculture Co., Ltd., a fish farming and processing business that has participated in so-called “poverty alleviation programs,” an indicator of forced labor, signed an agreement with Dalian Rich Enterprise Group “intended to substantially increase international distribution of Xinjiang salmon,” Kharon said.
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Dalian Rich “sells frozen salmon to seafood processing companies in the U.S. and Canada, which in turn supply some of the largest supermarket chains in North America, according to trade data reviewed by Kharon,” the alert said. Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, goods produced wholly or in part in Xinjiang are presumed to be produced with forced labor and denied entry to the U.S.
The reports follow similar reports in May that Shandong Meijia Group, a frozen food processor that supplies U.S. companies, is using labor from Xinjiang under the guise of “poverty alleviation,” Kharon said.