We're contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between a company engaged in such practices and your supply chain.We have uncovered evidence that the Chinese company Dandong Yuanyi Refined Seafoods used North Korean labor after the December 2019 deadline for the repatriation of overseas North Korean workers required under United Nations Security Council sanctions. This evidence shows North Korean labor at Dandong Yuanyi’s factory in Liaoning, China, as recently as 2022. According t…
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Thank you for letting me know. We take these allegations seriously, and we expect all products sold in the Amazon Stores to be manufactured and produced in accordance with our Supply Chain Standards. Could you provide us with some more information about what you have uncovered so we can further look into this matter?
Thanks Jennifer, we appreciate your interest in the evidence we have gathered, but at this stage of our investigation are unable to share materials. We can confirm that we have video evidence of North Korean labor at Dandong Yuanyi’s factory in Liaoning province in 2022. We found Dandang Yuanyi’s approved non-EU establishment code on packaging of EuroAsia’s ‘MSDM Tintenfisch Jerky’, indicating it supplied the product to EuroAsia. We emailed EuroAsia on June 16, 2023, and November 21, 2023, about this issue, but have not yet received a response. We have also emailed Amazon UK (on December 7, 20…
I just realized that my email below didn’t send on Friday, so resending the statement, please see below. If there is an opportunity for your organization to share more information about the evidence you have, we would appreciate it. I’m sure you can understand that having evidence makes our internal work much more accurate and efficient. 'Amazon complies with the laws and regulations in all jurisdictions in which it operates. Amazon expects all products sold in Amazon Stores to be manufactured and produced in accordance with our Supply Chain Standards.' – Attributable to Jennifer Flagg, Amazon…
Thanks for your email and the statement. What more evidence do you seek: Proof of the supply chain connections between this plant and your company? Proof that the presence of North Korean workers in a given supply chain is a violation of UN Security Council sanctions? Proof of the existence of North Korean workers in a given plant? With regard to the final item, surely you can understand that if we hand you the videos in raw form and they come from the internet, your supplier will provide them to their counterpart in China and (speaking from experience here) the company and/or the government w…