The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has added 43 more companies to the “entity list” under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), directing customs agents to presume that all goods from the listed companies are tainted by slave labor from Uyghurs and other oppressed minorities in China.
The announcement marked the largest expansion of the UFLPA in the four years since it went into effect.
The new companies included China-linked firms in the apparel trade and cotton harvesting — which were prominent early targets of UFLPA, since China is the top worldwide supplier of cotton, and much of China’s cotton is harvested with forced labor from the Uyghurs.
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