New York [US], The US administration on Thursday added 26 textile entities such as merchants and warehouses to its forced labor entity list for alleged links to Uyghur labor camps in China's Xinjiang, Nikkei Asia reported. This latest decision will now ban the products. Related to these institutions entering the American market, the same report also claims that this step will increase pressure on the supply chains of the American market. The report of the US Department of Homeland Security states that the companies are based in China including Henan, Jiangsu. Are in provinces across. Hubei and Fujian have been added to the forced-labor unit list, bringing the count to 7. The US has repeatedly taken steps against the use of forced labor for production in China's Xinjiang region, which is home to predominantly Muslim Turkic Uyghurs.and other minority locals in the region are facing human rights abuses at the hands of the Chin, however, the country denies all such claims and says that all these allegations are a labor program meant to reduce poverty in the region. . The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) generally prohibits import sources “in whole or in part” into Xinjiang, a major cotton supply region. Enforcement personnel have flagged nearly $3 billion worth of shipments at the border since the act took effect in June 2022. Therefore all products coming from that region are considered to be the product of forced labor unless there is clear evidence that proves otherwise. The entity list designates specific companies whose products, or components of other companies' finished products, are to be prevented from entering the country by authorities in certain sectors, such as cotton tomatoes, and polysilicon, a key raw material for solar panels. , has done additional investigation for.Nikkei Asia's report claims that in this context, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in January this year calling for strengthening the UFLPA through steps such as adding entities outside China to the list. Was requested to implement. Adrian Zenz's case highlights that a major issue facing the US government is the lack of transparency in domestic supply chains with China. According to their statement to Nikkei Asia, "The UFLPA has provisions to monitor and monitor inter-Chinese supply chains because of the risk of labor transfer to other provinces. Since Xinjiang itself does not export much of what is produced in Xinjiang, Does." The biggest risk comes through intermediaries, and entity listings are well-suited to combat or address that problem, Nikkei Asia cites research by Zenz that says that from 2022 to 2023 the number There has been an increase of 38 percent.The workers were transferred as part of a "pair assistance" program, but he said any future understanding of labor transfer programs may be tenuous now that the Chinese government has stopped publishing statistics.