Biden Signs Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

Key Notes:

• President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law on December 23, 2021 to continue efforts to prevent the importation into the United States of goods produced in whole or in part with forced labor in China.
• The Act creates a rebuttable presumption that all goods produced in whole or in part in the Xinjiang region of China or imported from certain designated entities are produced from forced labor and must be denied entry into the United States.
• The law will go into effect on June 21, 2022.

On December 23, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, H.R. 6256 (Public Law No. 117-78) ( the "Act"), which is part of a concerted U.S. government effort to address the use of state-sponsored forced labor in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ("Xinjiang").