Effective January 15, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added 37 China-based companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, marking the single largest expansion of the UFLPA Entity List since its creation in 2022. Included in the additions is a large supplier of critical minerals, as well as one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers, Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd., and 25 of its subsidiaries.

These companies will now be subject to the UFLPA’s rebuttable presumption that the raw materials or goods they mine, produce, or manufacture, wholly or in part, are prohibited from entering the United States. In total, 144 entities are now on the UFLPA Entity List.

DHS’s action follows the U.S. Trade Representative’s release of the first-ever Trade Strategy to Combat Forced Labor earlier this week.