As of: February 15, 2024, 4:09 p.m
By: Robert Wallenhauer
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New trouble for Volkswagen: Several thousand new Audi, Porsche and Bentley cars are stuck in customs at US ports.
This has to do with VW's suppliers from western China.
Wolfsburg - Around 13,000 new VW Group cars are probably stuck in US ports, reports
Handelsblatt
.
The reason: The cars contain parts from western China - which also includes the Xinjiang region.
“We are working to resolve a customs-related delay in the delivery of certain Volkswagen Group vehicle models from US ports to dealers,” said a company spokesman when asked by the
German Press Agency
.
The component in question will now be replaced in the vehicles.
“The delivery of the vehicles is continuing, but unfortunately there may be delays,” added the company spokesman.
“The reason is a small electronic component of a larger control unit, which is replaced in the affected vehicles as soon as the required parts are available.” According to
Handelsblatt,
new cars from the group subsidiaries Audi, Porsche and Bentley are affected.
New cars in the port: Thousands of cars from VW subsidiaries are stuck in US ports.
(Symbolic image, here port in England) © Steve Parsons/dpa
Thousands of Audis, Bentleys and Porsches are stuck in US ports
According to the
Financial Times,
the component in question comes from western China and is not allowed to be used in the USA because of a local law against forced labor.
However, Volkswagen itself had no knowledge of its origin.
It was installed in a larger component by a supplier.
Volkswagen only found out about this through a tip from the supplier and then informed the US authorities itself. “We are clarifying the matter and taking appropriate measures,” explained the VW spokesman.
“This may include terminating the supplier relationship if our investigations confirm serious violations.”
VW is criticized for its Xinjiang plant
Volkswagen has long been criticized for its activities in western China.
In the Xinjiang region there, the group operates a delivery factory and a test track together with its Chinese partner Saic.
On Wednesday, Volkswagen announced that it would talk to Saic “about the future direction of business activities in the Xinjiang province.”
“Various scenarios are currently being intensively examined.” The chemical company BASF had previously announced that it would sell shares in its two joint ventures in Korla, China, in the center of the Xinjiang region, and also referred to recent reports of possible human rights violations.
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Uighurs, members of other minorities and human rights organizations have been reporting for years that hundreds of thousands of people in Xinjiang are being put into re-education camps against their will, in some cases tortured and forced into forced labor.
The Chinese government denies these allegations.
(dpa/row)