On July 31, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the addition of 43 companies based in China to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, bringing the total number of entities on the UFLPA Entity List to 187 entities. Effective August 3, 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will apply a rebuttable presumption that goods produced by these 43 entities are prohibited from entering the United States as a result of the companies’ activities, either sourcing materials from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang, the XUAR) or working with the government of Xinjiang to recruit, transport, transfer, harbor, or receive Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or members of other persecuted groups out of the XUAR.
According to a press release by DHS, the entities added include companies in high-priority sectors for enforcement, including aluminum, apparel, copper, cotton, as well as tomatoes and downstream products. The list also appears to include a number of pharmaceutical companies. Additional details on each of the 43 entities is available in the forthcoming Federal Register Notice.
For general background information on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), see Thompson Hine’s International Trade Update of June 2022. In addition, CBP’s UFLPA Dashboard containing current statistics and is available here.