; (B) the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, ratified by the People’s Republic of China in 2001; and (C) the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (commonly referred to as the Palermo Protocol ), to which the People's Republic of China is a state party. 3. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States— (1) to prohibit the importation of all goods produced, in whole or in part, by forced labor from the People’s Republic of China and particularly any such goods produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China; (2) to encourage the international community to reduce the importation of any goods produced by forced labor from the People’s Republic of China, particularly those goods produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; (3) to actively work to prevent, publicly denounce, and end human trafficking as a horrific assault on human dignity and to restore the lives of those affected by human trafficking, a modern form of slavery; (4) to regard the prevention of atrocities as in the national interest of the United States, including efforts to prevent— (A) torture; (B) enforced disappearances; (C) severe deprivation of liberty, including mass internment, arbitrary detention, and widespread and systematic use of forced labor; and (D) persecution targeting any identifiable ethnic or religious group; and (5) to address gross violations of human rights in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region— (A) through bilateral diplomatic channels and multilateral institutions in which both the United States and the People’s Republic of China are members