A Senate report released Monday found BMW imported at least 8,000 Mini Cooper vehicles into the country with electronic parts from a banned Chinese supplier.
An employee checks the logo of a car during its final inspection on a production line at Germany's carmaker BMW plant in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on October 20, 2022.imported at least 8,000 Mini Cooper vehicles into the United States with electronic components from a banned Chinese supplier, a U.S.
"Automakers' self-policing is clearly not doing the job," Wyden said, urging the Customs and Border Protection agency to "take a number of specific steps to supercharge enforcement and crack down on companies that fuel the shameful use of forced labor in China." Customs and Border Protection did not immediately comment.
The report said Jaguar Land Rover imported spare parts with JWD components after December, adding that the automaker quarantined all existing inventory containing the JWD component globally for destruction. Jaguar Land Rover said as soon as it learned of the issue it "immediately stopped all shipments of the two affected aftermarket service parts."
The report said BMW "appears to have stopped only after the committee repeatedly asked detailed questions to Lear and Lear's OEM customers, including BMW, about their relationship with JWD."
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