BCI Organization Behind The US "Ban Xinjiang Cotton"

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BCI was born out of the world cotton Foundation (WWF) round table initiative in 2005, and then expanded to many countries in the world. They claim that their main purpose is to make the global cotton planting and production more conducive to cotton farmers, more conducive to the planting environment, and more conducive to the future development of the industry.

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By the end of 2019, BCI certified "good cotton" accounted for one fifth of the world's cotton production. BCI holds high the banner of environmental protection and collects money from cotton merchants in the upper reaches, textile mills in the middle reaches and retail stores in the downstream.

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In the early stage, BCI firmly held high the banner of environmental protection and sustainable development, and received many responses. But after all, it is a non-profit organization. If you want to do something important, you need the support of "gold owners". At a time when BCI is at a loss, USAID is on the stage.

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The U.S. National Development Agency claims to be an independent agency to implement U.S. foreign policy and support non military projects, but actually it is about the same as the vest of the FBI. The news of funding the opposition, bribing officials, and stirring up people with rhythm are common. It can be imagined that the purpose of projects that can be "liked" by USAID is more than simply supporting environmental protection.

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After USAID assistance was in place, BCI's propaganda became more confident. Subsequently, British clothing retailer marks and Spencer, Levi's jeans, Nike and Adidas of the United States followed suit and joined the BCI alliance.

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As the three major cotton producing countries in the world, only 6% of the cotton production capacity in the United States has obtained BCI certification, while 15% of the cotton production capacity in Xinjiang of China has obtained BCI certification.

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In October 2020, BCI issued a press release, which was re edited in March 2021. It claimed that there were "forced labor" and other "human rights violations" in Xinjiang, which did not meet the organization's standards of conduct and must be dealt with immediately by revoking or refusing the BCI license. Since March 2020, BCI has suspended the issuance of licenses in Xinjiang, so the quality cotton in Xinjiang will no longer obtain BCI license.

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However, on March 1, 2021, the wechat official account of BCI Shanghai Representative Office once issued an important statement on Xinjiang issue, which said: "BCI China project team strictly follows BCI's auditing principles, and has carried out the second-party credibility audit and third-party verification for Xinjiang project sites since 2012, and has never found any case of forced labor."

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Due to the good regulations of BCI, members of the cotton alliance must use certified good cotton in all links of the industrial chain, but now Xinjiang cotton has been cancelled the certification by BCI. Considering that there are many global consumer goods enterprises in BCI alliance, that is to say, as a non-profit organization, BCI has implemented U.S. sanctions in major world markets for the United States, Cut off the Xinjiang cotton used in the production of export clothing channels.

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The United States is the undisputed first cotton producer and exporter, but as early as the beginning of the 21st century, China has become the world's first cotton producer. Due to the first mover advantage of the United States and the highly developed financial derivatives, the global pricing power of cotton is still on ice.

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In a few years, from cotton upstream production, intermediate textile processing, and then downstream consumption, China has obtained cotton pricing power as early as 2012, becoming the de facto world cotton trading center.

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At one time, many people thought that agricultural mechanization only existed in the United States and Northeast China, and the cotton field coverage rate in Northern Xinjiang had already exceeded 90%. The mechanization rate in southern Xinjiang is also increasing year by year. It is a familiar road for local farmers to spray pesticides by UAV.

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The BCI organization is just a pawn in the conspiracy to punish China.

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