According to the company's notice, Anta Sports has been purchasing and using cotton produced in China cotton producing areas, including Xinjiang cotton, and will continue to purchase and use China cotton in the future.
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BCI formulates "cotton standards" and calls on its members to "abide by them"
BCI was born at the initiative of a round table meeting of the World Cotton Foundation (WWF) in 2005, and then spread to many countries in the world. They claim that their main purpose is to make global cotton planting and production more beneficial to cotton farmers, planting environment and future development of the industry. Ironically, for some time, what it has done has obviously seriously damaged the interests of cotton farmers and the development of cotton industry in Xinjiang.
In September last year, the Trump administration, eager to get angry for the general election, hyped up Xinjiang-related issues, repeatedly discredited the so-called "forced labor" phenomenon in Xinjiang, and threatened to issue a "cotton ban in Xinjiang" to ban some or all products made of cotton in China.
Last June, 5438+ 10, BCI issued a press release, which was re-edited in March this year. It also claims that there are "forced labor" and other "human rights violations" in Xinjiang, which do not conform to the organization's code of conduct and must be dealt with immediately by revoking or refusing BCI's permission. Since March 2020, BCI has suspended the issuance of licenses in Xinjiang, so high-quality cotton in Xinjiang no longer receives BCI licenses.