A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked the Milwaukee Tool unit of Hong Kong-based Techtronic Industries to examine whether its products had links to forced labor, citing a recent media report that some were made by Chinese prisoners.
By Katherine Masters NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked the Milwaukee Tool unit of Hong Kong-based Techtronic Industries .
The U.S. State Department amended part of a statement to Congress in which it said Washington would invite Hong Kong's chief executive, who faces U.S. sanctions, to a November summit, after lawmakers urged he be barred from entering the country.
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