Apple imported clothes from Xinjiang firm facing US forced labour sanctions
by Emma Graham-Harrison and Stephanie Kirchgaessner from on (#56QM6)
Details on staff uniforms come after CEO Tim Cook says he will not tolerate modern slavery
Apple has imported clothes - probably uniforms for staff in stores - from a company facing US sanctions over forced labour at a subsidiary firm in China's western Xinjiang region, shipping records show.
The details come a week after Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, told the US Congress he would not tolerate forced labour or modern-day slavery in the company's supply chains.
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