Gotion's Suppliers Blacklisted for Using Forced Labor

The Department of Homeland Security's Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force has placed29 new Chinese companies on its forced labor entity list. This decision bans goods from those companies from entering the United States. Two of the companies - Xinjiang Nonferrous and Xinjiang Joinworld - are major suppliers to Gotion and CATL. Chairman John Moolenaar of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Congressman Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) released the below statement in response to the news:

"While we are pleased with this initial step, we remain concerned that CATL and Gotion's supply chains are deeply tied to the Xinjiang region. It is past time to stop spending taxpayer dollars partnering with Gotion and CATL. American companies should cut ties with these Chinese Communist Party-aligned battery companies and focus on developing a resilient supply chain free of forced labor. The Biden-Harris Administration rules that would allow American taxpayer dollars to subsidize Chinese batteries tainted by slave labor must also be reversed. Additionally, we must advance our bipartisan legislation, the Decoupling from Foreign Adversarial Battery Dependency Act, to not only eradicate forced labor from U.S. supply chains, but to reduce our dependency on China."

Background:
On June 5, 2024, Moolenaar, Green, Gimenez, as well as Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Congressman Darin LaHood (R-IL) exposed CATL and Gotion's connections to slave labor, including ties to Xinjiang Nonferrous and Xinjiang Joinworld.