The EU Parliament and Council have reached a provisional agreement on a new law aimed at banning goods made with forced labor, which does not name China but was initially driven by widespread allegations of state-sponsored coerced work in the Xinjiang region.
The draft agreement empowers the European Commission to launch investigations about suspected forced labor outside the bloc, and the 27 Member States are responsible for probes when there is suspicion of forced labour within their own borde...
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