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Brazil’s slow soybean harvest means that supplies are not reaching buyers as quickly as they might have hoped.

The Chinese workers hired by BYD contractor Jinjiang in Brazil had to hand over their passports to their new employer, let most of their wages be sent directly to China, and fork over an almost $900 deposit that they could only get back after six months' work,

Chinese workers hired to build BYD's new factory in Brazil faced alleged labor abuses, including withheld passports and unlawful contract clauses. While the factory promised to bring local jobs, controversies over forced labor practices cast a shadow over the project and Brazil-China relations.