NEW YORK - A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has urged securities regulators to require fashion upstart Shein to attest it does not use forced Chinese labour as a condition ofthat the fast-growing discount apparel company uses cotton from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, two dozen members of the House of Representatives urged action from the head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
“We request that you set forth regulations and mandate Shein to certify via independent verification that the company does not use Uighur forced labour as a condition of being registered to issue securities in the United States.” A Shein spokesman said the company has no suppliers in the Xinjiang Region and that it has “zero tolerance” for forced labour.
“Our suppliers must adhere to a strict code of conduct that is aligned to the International Labour Organisation’s core conventions.”