Five federal US departments plus the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative published the Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory Addendum last week as part of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).
“As the UFLPA requires that the FLETF provide annual updates to the UFLPA Strategy, the FLETF released the 2023 Updates to the UFLPA Strategy on August 1, 2023. The 2023 Updates contained new information regarding additions to the UFLPA Entity List; additional resources necessary to ensure no goods made with forced labor enter at U.S. Ports; and coordination and collaboration with appropriate NGOs and private sector entities.”
The update serves “to remind the business community of its obligations under the UFLPA and Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930. This addendum contains information about the ongoing, widespread, and pervasive risks in supply chains posed by state-sponsored forced labor and other human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as well as implementation and enforcement of the UFLPA that would be of particular interest to the business and importing communities.”
The document adds new source materials from both governmental and non-governmental sources, enforcement statistics, sanctioned entities and products, as well as clarification on “merchandise produced in a third country using inputs from Xinjiang, as well as finished goods with Xinjiang content that are transshipped through another country to the United States.”
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