On August 19, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as chair of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), released the 2025 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. This strategy builds on three years of enforcement of the UFLPA in addition to DHS’s longstanding efforts to remove forced labor from U.S. supply chains and support responsible businesses and industries that uphold human rights protections and support fair competition.  Originally published in June 2022, the UFLPA Strategy outlines a multi-pronged approach to combating forced labor in global supply chains. DHS has issued a Press Release and a Fact Sheet on the 2025 Updates to the UFLPA Strategy.  FAQs on the Strategy and high-priority sectors are available on DHS’s UFLPA website.

The UFLPA Strategy outlines a multi-pronged approach to combatting forced labor in global supply chains.  This year’s updates outline how the FLETF has significantly advanced our objectives through several initiatives:

• Strong Enforcement by CBP: Since implementation of the rebuttable presumption in June 2022, CBP has examined more than 16,700 shipments, denying more than 10,000 shipments covering a broad range of products from apparel, automotive parts, chemicals, electronics, flooring, and solar panels.

• Expansion of the UFLPA Entity List provides responsible businesses with information to keep tainted goods from U.S. supply chains.  The UFLPA Entity List now includes 144 entities located in the XUAR and in provinces across China, representing a large number of industry sectors – ranging from agriculture, batteries, electronics, food additives, household appliances, nonferrous metals, plastics, and textiles – demonstrating how far these illicit goods can reach into global supply chains.  DHS and the FLETF are committed to further expansion of the UFLPA Entity List to hold companies accountable for human rights abuses.

• Designating New High-Priority Sectors for Enforcement allows importers to focus due diligence on supply chains that intersect with these sectors and empowers U.S. agencies to consider additional enforcement actions.  In addition to aluminum, apparel, cotton and cotton products, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), seafood, silica-based products including polysilicon, and tomatoes and downstream products, the FLETF is designating caustic soda, copper, lithium, red dates, and steel as new high-priority sectors for enforcement.

• Greater Collaboration with Stakeholders strengthens enforcement and supports compliance.  The FLETF is leveraging industry relationships to build awareness of the risks of forced labor and expand the Administration’s collective knowledge of best practices to identify and isolate bad actors.  DHS and FLETF partners will continue to work with international partners, as they develop their own approaches and enforcement regimes to keep goods made with forced labor from legitimate markets.