The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it’s banning products from 29 additional China-based companies from being imported into the U.S. The agency added the firms to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, claiming its actions were the result of the companies allegedly using forced labor.

The new companies placed on the ULFPA Entity List are:

  • Tianjin Tianwei Food
  • Xinjiang Zhonghe (also known as Xinjiang Joinworld)
  • Xinjiang Nonferrous Metals Industry Group
  • Western Gold
  • Western Gold Karamay Hatu Gold Mine
  • Western Gold Hami Gold Mine
  • Anhui Yaozhiyuan Biotechnology Development (also known as Anhui Yaozhiyuan Chinese Herbal Medicine; Anhui Yaozhiyuan Chinese Medicinal Materials; and Anhui Yaozhiyuan Biological Technology Development) 
  • Annan Canned Food (also known as Nanling County Annan Canned Food) 
  • Dalian Sunspeed Foods (also known as Dalian Shengchi International Trade)
  • Gansu Yasheng International Trading (also known as Gansu Yasheng International Trade Co. and Yasheng International Trade)
  • Hangzhou Union Biotechnology (also known as Hangzhou Youer Biotechnology Co.; Youer Biotech; and Union Biotech) 
  • Hebei Suguo International Trade (also known as Suguo International) 
  • Hebei Tomato Industry (also known as Hebei Temeite Industrial Group)
  • Hunan Nanmo Biotechnology (also known as Hunan Nanmomo Technology) 
  • Inner Mongolia Qileyuan Food
  • Inner Mongolia Xuanda Food (also known as Xuanda Food) 
  • Jinan Haihong International Trade
  • Jining Pengjie Trading
  • Junan Jinsheng Import & Export (also known as Junan County Jinsheng Import and Export) 
  • Kingherbs Limited (also known as Changsha Jincao Biotechnology) 
  • Qingdao Vital Nutraceutical Ingredients BioScience (also known as Qingdao Weiyikang Biotechnology) 
  • Shanghai JUMP Machinery & Technology (also known as Shanghai Jiapai Machinery Technology)
  • Sichuan Yuan’an Pharmaceutical (also known as Sichuan Yuanan Pharmaceutical)
  • Taiyuan Weishan International Economic Business (also known as Taiyuan Weishan International Trade)
  • The TNN Development Limited (also known as Dehui International Trade)
  • Tianjin Dunhe International Trade (also known as Dunhe Foods) 
  • Tianjin Kunyu International (also known as China Kunyu Industrial)
  • Weifang Alice Food
  • Zhangzhou Hang Fat Import & Export (also known as ZhangzhouHengfa Import and Export)


Effective November 25, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the DHS have the right to deny entry for any shipments containing goods from these companies. This brings the total number of entities on the UFLPA Entity List to 107.

“Forced labor is a violation of basic human rights,” says U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas. “[DHS] has aggressively enforced the [UFLPA], preventing goods made through forced labor from entering our country, investigating and exposing more than 100 bad actors and helping American businesses avoid inadvertently profiting from this modern form of slavery.

The United States is making progress towards the eradication of forced labor.”

Alejandro N. Mayorkas

Secretary, DHS

“Alongside our government, industry and civil society partners, the United States is making progress towards the eradication of forced labor while supporting economic fairness, safeguarding human rights and holding perpetrators accountable.”

Promo Perspective

This latest announcement comes on the heels of DHS adding four China-based textile firms to the ULFPA Entity List earlier this month.

Emma Barss, research manager at Strategy Risks, a consultancy helping companies manage and reduce their risks doing business in China, encouraged promo firms to look into auditing China-based textile firms they have relationships with due to the “widespread nature of undetected UFLPA violations” within the sector.

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“For businesses worrying about such risks, firms in the promotional products industry should focus first on understanding their supply chain and overall reliance on Chinese textile firms,” says Barss. “For firms with particularly extensive relationships with the Chinese textile industry, it’s recommended to invest in auditing supply chains beforehand, to reduce exposure to Chinese firms at high risk of violating the UFLPA.

“Be aware that due to the UFLPA, Chinese textile companies now actively obscure their exposure to forced labor – and the Chinese government has severely restricted the ability of on-the-ground compliance firms to conduct audits.”