US updates UFLPLA list
The US Department of Homeland Security (‘DHS’), which is the Chair of the US government’s Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (‘FLETF’), has announced ‘the publication and availability of the updated Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List.’
This consists of a consolidated register of the four lists required to be developed and maintained pursuant to the UFLPA and can be found on the DHS UFLPA website.
The updated list ‘adds three entities to one of the lists of the UFLPA, which identifies entities working with the government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to recruit, transport, transfer, harbor or receive forced labor or Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or members of other persecuted groups out of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,’ says a notice in the US Federal Register.
AS the DHS notes, ‘The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (Public Law No. 117-78), also known as the UFLPA, directs the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to develop a strategy for supporting enforcement of the prohibition on the importation of goods into the United States manufactured wholly or in part with forced labor in the People’s Republic of China, especially from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Xinjiang. The UFLPA was enacted on December 23, 2021, with a June 21, 2022 effective date for a rebuttable presumption that goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in Xinjiang or by an entity on the UFLPA Entity List are prohibited from U.S. importation under 19 U.S.C. § 1307.’
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-12-11/pdf/2023-26984.pdf
