The work I do every day is to trace supply chains back to the Uighur region. We start with companies in the Uighur region and we see whom they say they're selling to and we are able to see full supply chains that reach from the Uighur region out to the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and EU. We often just use simple searches of the corporate records of companies operating in the Uighur region, where they announce clearly, both in their annual reports and in their PR releases and their social media, the big contracts they have won with international corporations or Chinese corporations operating internationally.
We then trace those companies to whom they're selling, through customs records that are available for 19 countries, though not available for Canada—and that's significant.
We're able to do it from our desks on the Internet with a paid subscription for a program that costs $7,000. That's it.
I think that not only can governments do it, but companies can and must do it and we need to stop making excuses for it. I do it every day.