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The Swiss textile machinery industry has a China dilemma

Swiss textile machinery, regardless of where it is ultimately produced, is being used in China factories that have been slapped with US sanctions over allegations of forced labor. Can an industry that sells a machine that sits on a factory floor for years be held accountable to the same extent as a brand that continually buys fabric or cotton t-shirts made with alleged forced labor?

Commenting on this issue, GSEM Prof. Dorothée Baumann-Pauly from the Geneva Centre on Business and Human Rights said, “Companies selling machinery to the region face some of the same questions as those selling technology that could be used for surveillance. You have to figure out who you are selling to and what it is being used for.”

Amid allegations of forced labor involving Uyghur and other minorities in the garment supply chain, the Swiss textile machinery sector faces difficult questions about the industry’s ties to and heavy reliance on China.

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31 mars 2021
  2021
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