CBP updates importer guidance on forced-labour

WASHINGTON DC - The US Customs and Border Protection has published updated operational guidance for importers on forced-labour enforcement, replacing its 2022 UFLPA guide and broadening it to cover all major forced-labour authorities, including the Tariff Act, the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act and CAATSA.

The guidance, which is intended to help US garment and textile importers reduce seizure risk and demonstrate reasonable care across supply chains, follows recent NGO warnings that enforcement of the UFLPA is falling behind the shifting realities of state‑imposed labour in China, four years after the law came into force.