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Tell Congress:
No Blank Check for China!
In our stores today, Americans can buy products made in China's forced labor camps and by workers earning as little as 13 cents an hour. China is notorious for violating basic human rights and fighting dissent with brutality, prison and "re-education" camps.
Congress is considering legislation to give China a blank check: Some members want Congress to end its current system of reviewing China's human rights record each year before deciding our trade policy. They want to grant China permanent "Normal Trade Relations" (NTR) status, with no annual reviews.
Call your members of Congress today!
Tell them China should not get permanent access to U.S. markets until it demonstrates that it has stoppend unfair trade practices and respects human and workers' rights.
- China has violated every trade agreement it has signed in the past 10 years, and top Chinese government officials say they have no intention of abiding by this agreement, either.
- China can flood the United States with cheap imports made by forced laborers and grossly underpaid workers. The growing trade deficit with China already has cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs and lowered the wages of American workers.
- The Chinese government routinely tramples basic human rights, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of association.
- Trade agreements must protect people, not just profits.