Southeast Asia bears brunt of US trade curbs on Uyghur forced labor

FILE - A Uyghur woman works while her children play in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region, Sept 20, 2018. U.S. trade figures show that as of October 2024, Southeast Asia is being hit hardest by U.S. trade restrictions on exports believed to come from Uyghur forced labor.

Southeast Asia is bearing the mounting brunt of U.S. trade curbs aimed at stemming the forced labor of ethnic minority Uyghurs in China, with billions of dollars in blocked exports, the latest U.S. trade figures show.