US Senate Finance Committee Widens Probe into BMW Over Banned Chinese Parts

The US Senate Finance Committee has expanded an investigation into BMW after vehicles imported to America were found to contain banned Chinese parts. An earlier investigation found that over 8,000 BMW Mini Coopers contained components made by the Chinese firm Sichuan Jingweida Technology Group, on a US list of entities using forced labor. The US passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021 to ban goods from China's Xinjiang region where over 1 million Uyghurs have allegedly been detained.