CBP Launches New Forced Labor Portal  | Customs & International Trade Law Blog

On January 21, 2026, Customs and Border Safety (CBP) launched its new Compelled Labor Portal. The Portal offers a central system for submitting evaluate requests for shipments detained or excluded for compelled labor enforcement.

Efficient, January 21, 2026, importers MUST use the portal to submit the next for evaluate:

Withhold Launch Order/Discovering admissibility opinions.
Uyghur Compelled Labor Prevention Act applicability opinions.
Uyghur Compelled Labor Prevention Act requests for exception; and
Countering America’s Adversaries By way of Sanctions Act exception requests.

All detained or excluded shipments requiring evaluate should be submitted via this Portal, and customers will need to have a login.gov account to entry it. Relying on the kind of evaluate submitted, submission can be reviewed by CBP personnel in Compelled Labor Division, or Port of Entry, or the Heart of Excellence and Experience.

Diaz Commerce Regulation has confirmed with CBP that responses to CBP Kind 28 (Request for Info) and CBP Kind 29 (Discover of Motion) shouldn’t be submitted via the Compelled Labor Portal.

The Portal is obtainable at https://flportal.cbp.gov/s/login/ and CBP has offered an tutorial video on methods to submit a request right here.

This transformation displays one other step ahead in how CBP interacts with the commerce group, transitioning from a number of submission pathways to a extra centralized, digital platform.

Diaz Commerce Regulation has vital expertise in a broad vary of import compliance issues together with compelled labor compliance and enforcement mitigation. For help with growing or updating a compelled labor compliance plan, compelled labor compliance coaching, or speaking with CBP relating to items detained by CBP, contact us at the moment at data@diaztradelaw.com or 305-456-3830.

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