US law establishing a rebuttable presumption that any goods mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or by entities on an associated list, are made with forced labor and are therefore prohibited from entry into the United States.
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
Statute United States
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act inverts the usual burden at the US border. Goods with a nexus to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are presumed to be made with forced labor and are excluded, and it falls to the importer to rebut that presumption with clear and convincing evidence of the supply chain behind the shipment.
- Rebuttable presumption - Detention is the default; admissibility is something the importer proves.
- Entity List - A maintained list of producers and exporters whose goods trigger the presumption.
- Traceability to raw material - Rebutting typically requires documentation back to the cotton bale, the polysilicon batch or the ore, several tiers above the direct supplier.
- Enforced by CBP - US Customs and Border Protection issues detentions and publishes statistics.
UFLPA is the most demanding evidentiary regime in this catalog in terms of how far up the chain the data has to reach — and, characteristically for supply chain, it names no format for that data. Importers assemble it as documents, per detention, largely by email. The State of Supply Chain APIs places it alongside CSDDD and LkSG in the pattern that explains this market’s contract quality: regulation that demands deep supply chain knowledge, and specifies no interoperable way for the companies who hold it to pass it along.
Referenced in API Evangelist papers
This regulation shows up in my published research. These reports read the machine-readable evidence provider by provider — and put this regulation in the context of a real sector.
The State of Supply Chain APIs
A rebuttable presumption that puts the evidentiary burden on the importer — and still names no exchange format for the evidence.
