It means CBP is holding your goods because they trace to China's Xinjiang region or to a company on the UFLPA Entity List. Under the law, those goods are presumed made with forced labor and barred from entry. You can challenge that, but the burden is on the importer.
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The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act presumes that goods mined, produced or made, wholly or in part, in the Xinjiang region, or by a company on the UFLPA Entity List, fall under the U.S. ban on forced-labor goods. CBP applies it at the port to goods imported since June 21, 2022.
The importer can contest it in one of two ways. An applicability review shows the goods have no tie to Xinjiang or a listed company, with records tracing them back to the raw material. An exception shows, by clear and convincing evidence, that the goods weren't made with forced labor. The exception also needs full compliance with CBP's guidance and complete answers to its questions. It's legal and supply-chain work, often done with a customs attorney.
You can export or destroy them instead, at your own cost. CBP's guidance gives 30 days to respond to the detention, with at most two extensions, up to 90 calendar days from the detention notice in all.
Say the detention notice is dated June 1. With both extensions, the outer limit is August 30.
The cheaper moment is before you pay a deposit: checking whether a supplier, or its known parent, is on the UFLPA Entity List or tied to other flagged companies, before the goods are made. Once a shipment is detained, the choices narrow to contesting, exporting or destroying.
The free customs-hold check reads a UFLPA detention notice, assembles the cited evidence checklist CBP looks for, and pre-fills a draft response package to organize for a customs attorney. To check a supplier and its known parent against the same lists before ordering, use the free supplier check.
Read the CBP notice — free →The rules on this page do change — an eFiling date, a list, a threshold. Leave an email and a short note goes out if one does: a few a year at most, one click to stop, and the address is used for nothing else. A summary of the guide and a link arrive now, as confirmation.
Information current as of 2026-10-31.
This report is an automated, informational screening tool only. Tiana & Co. is not a licensed customs broker and does not conduct customs business. This report does not constitute legal advice, a compliance determination, or a certification of admissibility for any supplier, product, or shipment.
Verdicts in this report are produced by deterministic code, not by a language model. The explanatory paragraph accompanying each check is model-generated and checked against the cited sources before delivery. No part of this report is reviewed by a person before it is issued, so every material finding and citation should be confirmed against the underlying government source before it is relied on.
This report reflects data available as of the report date. The OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists, the other U.S. Consolidated Screening List constituents, the UFLPA Entity List, CBP withhold release orders, CPSC's eFiling list, and regulatory guidance are updated frequently and without prior notice. Users should re-screen periodically and consult qualified counsel for compliance decisions.
Name-similarity results do not establish or rule out the identity of any company. Where multiple similarly named records exist, none should be treated as confirmed without independent verification against the primary government source.
This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a substitute for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or any other government agency. No warranty is made as to the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any finding.
Use of this report for import, procurement, sanctions-compliance, or investment decisions is at the user's own risk. Anyone with compliance obligations under UFLPA, OFAC, or CPSC regulations should consult qualified legal counsel before making a transactional decision.
This report is an automated, informational screening tool only. Tiana & Co. is not a licensed customs broker and does not conduct customs business. This report does not constitute legal advice, a compliance determination, or a certification of admissibility for any supplier, product, or shipment.
Verdicts in this report are produced by deterministic code, not by a language model. The explanatory paragraph accompanying each check is model-generated and checked against the cited sources before delivery. No part of this report is reviewed by a person before it is issued, so every material finding and citation should be confirmed against the underlying government source before it is relied on.
This report reflects data available as of the report date. The OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists, the other U.S. Consolidated Screening List constituents, the UFLPA Entity List, CBP withhold release orders, CPSC's eFiling list, and regulatory guidance are updated frequently and without prior notice. Users should re-screen periodically and consult qualified counsel for compliance decisions.
Name-similarity results do not establish or rule out the identity of any company. Where multiple similarly named records exist, none should be treated as confirmed without independent verification against the primary government source.
This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a substitute for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or any other government agency. No warranty is made as to the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any finding.
Use of this report for import, procurement, sanctions-compliance, or investment decisions is at the user's own risk. Anyone with compliance obligations under UFLPA, OFAC, or CPSC regulations should consult qualified legal counsel before making a transactional decision.