The European Commission has proposed a sanctions regimen to ban products made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Because it is the Commission which formulates laws in the EU while the EU Parliament merely amends, approves or rejects them, this is a much more significant step than the EU Parliament’s passage of a non-binding resolution in June which condemned the “systematic repression of the Uyghur community” and called for a ban on forced-labor goods. As we reported then, the Commission is significantly less favorable to sanctioning China than the Parliament is. That’s why this draft proposal is “risk-based” and puts the onus on national authorities to demonstrate that a product was made with forced labor, with a…