Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Progress or Setback?

Art of Supply

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, or UFLPA, took effect in June of 2022 to protect an ethnically Turkish, predominantly Muslim minority that lives in the Xinjiang autonomous region of China.

The Uyghurs have been the subject of forced labor claims and investigations - truly the stuff of supply chain nightmares. If companies try to import anything connected to Xinjiang into the United States, they must prove conclusively that it did not involve forced labor.

But what if the Uyghurs are moved out of Xinjiang? What does that do to enforcement of the law?

In this episode of Art of Supply, Kelly Barner looks into the simultaneously expanding and dissolving front line in the war against Uyghur forced labor:

• How worker relocation is making it harder for U.S. Customs to enforce the UFLPA
• Why the specifics of the law may have provided the blueprints for defying it
• What business leaders and supply chain decision makers will have to grapple with if they want to achieve the intended objectives of this law

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