August 19, 2025
WASHINGTON — Today, the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF) published its annual updates to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Strategy to Prevent the Importation of Goods Mined, Produced, or Manufactured with Forced Labor in the People’s Republic of China (UFLPA Strategy). The UFLPA Strategy reflects the Administration’s commitment to enforcement of the UFLPA to prohibit goods made with forced labor in China from entering U.S. supply chains. Keeping these illicit goods out of U.S. markets is critical for combatting unfair trading practices that undercut the competitiveness of American businesses and workers.
Background
The UFLPA establishes a rebuttable presumption, which became effective on June 21, 2022, that the importation of any goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in Xinjiang, or produced by an entity on the UFLPA Entity List, is prohibited. The UFLPA Strategy was initially issued in June 2022. The 2025 updates to the UFLPA Strategy highlight the 78 new entities added to the UFLPA Entity List in the past year, bringing the total to 144 Chinese entities whose goods are presumptively prohibited from entering the United States pursuant to the UFLPA. The UFPLA Strategy also designated new high-priority sectors for enforcement under the UFLPA – caustic soda, copper, lithium, red dates, and steel.
The FLETF, chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leads efforts to monitor implementation of the UFLPA and the broader U.S. law prohibiting the importation into the United States of goods made wholly or in part with forced labor. In addition to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the FLETF is comprised of seven member agencies: the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the Departments of Labor, State, Treasury, Justice, and Commerce.
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