The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it has added
“37 entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, marking the largest single expansion of the list to date. Among entities added are a large supplier of critical minerals and one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers… This addition brings the total number of entities on the UFLPA Entity List to 144… The entities added today include globally recognized companies that mine and process Xinjiang’s critical minerals, that grow Xinjiang cotton and manufacture textiles for global export, and that manufacture inputs for solar modules with polysilicon made in Xinjiang.”
Inclusion on this list means that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will apply the law’s rebuttable presumption that goods produced by listed entities as a result of the companies sourcing materials from the XUAR or working with the government of Xinjiang to recruit, transport, transfer, harbor, or receive Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or members of other persecuted groups out of the XUAR. Such goods will be prohibited from entering the United States unless “clear and convincing evidence” is produced to successfully rebut the presumption.
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