How do I screen a supplier for forced labor?

The three in the table above, in that order. First, the UFLPA Entity List, published by DHS: it held 190 entities as of October 29, 2026, and grows by Federal Register notice. Second, CBP's Withhold Release Orders and Findings, a separate tool: an order covers certain goods, often from a named producer, so a company can be under one without being on the Entity List. CBP publishes them on a public dashboard.

Third, the federal sanctions lists, OFAC's and the Consolidated Screening List. A supplier can be on them for reasons unrelated to labor that decide whether a U.S. company may deal with it at all.

Every list is keyed to a company's registered legal name and known aliases. The name on a quote or a marketplace page is often a trading name, or a sales company one step removed from the factory. Ask for the registered name in English and, for a Chinese company, in Chinese characters, plus the parent or group if there is one. The parent matters because a listing can name a company's subsidiaries or affiliates, and CBP looks harder at goods from companies related to one in Xinjiang.

Say a quote comes from a trading company. Checking only that name can come back clean while the factory behind it, or its parent, is listed.

A match proves one thing: the name, an alias or a parent appears on a named list, as of a dated copy of that list. Record it with the source and date, because it's what backs a decision months later.

A no-match proves less than it looks. It means nothing was found on those lists, under those names, on that date. It doesn't clear the goods, because forced-labor risk enters through raw materials and sub-suppliers, and a list changes after the day it was checked.

Shipment-history tools built on U.S. vessel manifest data are a useful second look: a real supplier tends to show repeat shipments. But it covers ocean cargo arriving in the U.S. only; air, rail and truck cargo data isn't released.

There's also a legal blind spot. An importer can ask CBP to keep its name and its shippers' names out of public manifest data, and many established companies do. So a supplier with no public record may be careful, not fake. Trade data is good at ruling suppliers out; it doesn't confirm them.

A list screen, with the source and date behind each result, is the cheapest check and the one that matters at the border; it costs tens of dollars. A corporate registry check, which confirms a company legally exists and who owns it, runs about $69 from one vendor whose pricing is cited below, and a fuller investigation about $199. Neither screens the government lists, and none of the three confirms a factory can make what it claims. Only an on-site or live video audit does that, quoted separately.

Before a deposit is paid, when a bad result costs a quote rather than a container. A supplier you already use is worth screening again when a new notice adds to the Entity List, when CBP issues a new order in your product's sector, and before a shipment after a long gap. This site keeps a public change log for each list, so the date of the last change is never a guess.