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A worker packages spools of cotton yarn at a textile manufacturing plant, as seen during a government organized trip for foreign journalists, in Aksu in China's Xinjiang

Video. EU to ban forced-labour products in move mostly targeted at China

Updated: 23/04/2024 - 17:57 GMT+2

The European Parliament has approved sweeping new rules designed to stamp out products tainted with forced labour from the EU market.

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