DHS Announces New High Priority Sectors for UFLPA Enforcement | Customs & International Trade Law Blog

The Division of Homeland Safety’s (DHS) Compelled Labor Enforcement Process Power (FLETF) launched an replace to the Technique to Stop the Importation of Items Mined, Produced, or Manufactured with Compelled Labor within the Folks’s Republic of China.

Technique Background

DHS launched the primary publication of the UFLPA Technique in June 2022. The technique outlines a multi-pronged method to combating pressured labor in world provide chains.The technique features a complete evaluation of the danger of importing items with pressured labor within the PRC, excessive precedence sectors for enforcement, steering to importers, suggestions to precisely determine affected items, and extra. DHS launched the primary replace to the publication in August of 2023.

The Newest Replace  

The replace builds on two years of the Administration’s enforcement of the UFLPA. The most recent technique recognized new excessive precedence sectors for enforcement – aluminum, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and seafood. These industries have been recognized on account of greater danger of pressured labor or state labor switch of Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR).

Entities in these sectors will now be prioritized for overview for enforcement actions akin to inclusion on the UFLPA Entity Record, sanctions, export limitations, and visa restrictions.

Different merchandise beforehand recognized as excessive precedence akin to attire, cotton and cotton merchandise, silica-based merchandise together with polysilicon, and tomatoes stay excessive precedence sectors.

The most recent updates additionally define how the FLETF has considerably superior their targets via a number of initiatives, akin to sturdy enforcement by U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP); enlargement of the UFLPA Entity Record; new excessive precedence sectors for enforcement; and better collaboration with stakeholders.

Revisit Your Due Diligence Efforts

With the addition of those new high-priority sectors for enforcement, importers ought to give additional consideration to due diligence efforts on provide chains that work together with these sectors.

Diaz Commerce Regulation has important expertise in a broad vary of import compliance issues together with pressured labor compliance and enforcement mitigation. For help in a broad vary of pressured labor compliance issues together with growing or updating a pressured labor compliance plan, pressured labor compliance coaching, or speaking with CBP concerning items detained by CBP, contact us right this moment at data@diaztradelaw.com.

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