By: Arthur Bodek
On October 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the addition of four companies to the section of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Consolidated Entity List, which identifies facilities and entities that source material from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) or from persons working with the XUAR government or the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for purposes of the ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ program or the ‘‘pairing-assistance’’ program or any other government labor scheme that uses forced labor.
