China’s Ministry of Commerce recently accused the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) of assisting U.S. sanctions against China over alleged forced labor in Xinjiang and barred Chinese organizations and individuals from doing business or cooperating with it. The RBA is one of the world’s largest corporate social responsibility initiatives; it has over 600 member companies that together employ more than 21.5 million workers. Its Responsible Minerals Initiative runs the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP), the only supply chain due diligence scheme so far formally recognized by the EU under its Conflict Minerals Regulation.
tirsdag 25. august 2026
Will China Rewrite the Rules of Global Supply Chains?
Faced with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), U.S. legislation that presumes any goods made in Xinjiang involved forced labor, as well as with new European forced labor rules, China has not retreated. Instead, Beijing is building its own corporate responsibility and supply chain standards, limiting how some Western audit and standards systems operate in China, and promoting China-led standards abroad.
China’s Ministry of Commerce recently accused the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) of assisting U.S. sanctions against China over alleged forced labor in Xinjiang and barred Chinese organizations and individuals from doing business or cooperating with it. The RBA is one of the world’s largest corporate social responsibility initiatives; it has over 600 member companies that together employ more than 21.5 million workers. Its Responsible Minerals Initiative runs the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP), the only supply chain due diligence scheme so far formally recognized by the EU under its Conflict Minerals Regulation.
China’s Ministry of Commerce recently accused the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) of assisting U.S. sanctions against China over alleged forced labor in Xinjiang and barred Chinese organizations and individuals from doing business or cooperating with it. The RBA is one of the world’s largest corporate social responsibility initiatives; it has over 600 member companies that together employ more than 21.5 million workers. Its Responsible Minerals Initiative runs the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP), the only supply chain due diligence scheme so far formally recognized by the EU under its Conflict Minerals Regulation.