According to a media report, thousands of Volkswagen Group cars are stuck in US ports. Porsche, Bentley and Audi vehicles were confiscated.
The Financial Times reported this on Wednesday, citing insiders. A Volkswagen supplier found a component in the cars that violated the law against forced labor. According to the report, the German car company has postponed delivery of the vehicles until the end of March in order to replace an important electronic component that came from western China. Volkswagen had no knowledge of the origin of the component until the supplier alerted the Germans to the problem. The component was sourced from an indirect supplier further down the supply chain. According to the Financial Times, VW informed the US authorities immediately after the origin of the part became known. The US bans the import of products made using forced labor in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur region and other areas of China. According to the report, VW did not want to comment on this.
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