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Bill S-204

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 10, 2022
Xinjiang Manufactured Goods Importation Prohibition Act
  • Bill S-204, also known as the Xinjiang Manufactured Goods Importation Prohibition Act, aims to amend the Customs Tariff to prohibit the importation of goods manufactured in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. This is due to ongoing human rights abuses and genocide against Uyghur and Turkic Muslims in that region. The bill has been introduced in response to international recognition of these abuses and calls for sanctions against Chinese Communist Party officials involved. Once the bill receives royal assent, it will come into force on the first anniversary of that day.
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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament,

70 Elizabeth II, 2021

SENATE OF CANADA

BILL S-204
An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (goods from Xinjiang)
FIRST READING, November 24, 2021

THE HONOURABLE SENATOR Housakos
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SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Customs Tariff to prohibit the importation of goods manufactured in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.

Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address:
www.sencanada.ca/en


1st Session, 44th Parliament,

70 Elizabeth II, 2021

SENATE OF CANADA

BILL S-204

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (goods from Xinjiang)

Preamble

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in a series of human rights abuses as part of an ongoing genocide against Uyghur and Turkic Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China;

Whereas these actions have been recognized as a genocide by numerous international bodies and jurisdictions including the United States of America and the United Kingdom;

Whereas the House of Commons has recognized the ongoing human rights abuses committed against Uyghur and Turkic Muslims as genocide;

Whereas the Senate has called for Magnitsky sanctions against officials of the Chinese Communist Party for their involvement in these genocidal actions;

And whereas Canada is a nation built on the rule of law, freedom of religion and the principles of basic human rights;

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

Short Title

Short title

1 This Act may be cited as the Xinjiang Manufactured Goods Importation Prohibition Act.

1997, c. 36

Customs Tariff

2 The Customs Tariff is amended by adding the following after section 136:

Prohibited imports

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136.‍1 Despite anything in this Act, the importation of goods manufactured or produced wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China is prohibited.

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Coming into Force

First anniversary of royal assent

3 This Act comes into force on the first anniversary of the day on which it receives royal assent.

Published under authority of the Senate of Canada


EXPLANATORY NOTES

Customs Tariff
Clause 2: New.