Veteran-owned clothing brand says it discovered one of its suppliers uses cotton from slave labor region
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Tyler Merritt, CEO of Nine Line Apparel, calls out one of his suppliers that allegedly used cotton from a slave labor region in China on 'Fox & Friends.'
"It's very similar to a DNA test. So, it compares isotopes from a region in Xinjiang, China– This is a region where people are forced to work indefinitely for the simple fact of being born a Muslim– So, we test this material, and we've identified that Next Level apparel, doing business as YS Garments, which is the country... the importer of record… you know, that's what came back consistent with Xinjiang cotton, not once, but a second time that we tested at a different lot, a different batch from a different distribution center came back as being consistent as well" he said. Ashley Carnahan is a production assistant at Fox News Digital.
The Chinese Communist Party reportedly uses Xinjiang, a northwestern region in China, to detain Uyghur Muslims in detention camps and subjects them to conditions of forced labor, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.