H. R. 6256 
One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and twenty-one 
An Act 
To ensure that goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
Region of the People’s Republic of China do not enter the United States market, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to strengthen the prohibition against the importation 
of goods made with forced labor, including by ensuring that 
the Government of the People’s Republic of China does not 
undermine the effective enforcement of section 307 of the Tariff 
Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307), which prohibits the importation 
of all ‘‘goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced 
or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by 
* * * forced labor’’; 
(2) to lead the international community in ending forced 
labor practices wherever such practices occur through all means 
available to the United States Government, including by stop-
ping the importation of any goods made with forced labor, 
including those goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly 
or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 
(3) to coordinate with Mexico and Canada to effectively 
implement Article 23.6 of the United States-Mexico-Canada 
Agreement to prohibit the importation of goods produced in 
whole or in part by forced or compulsory labor, including those 
goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 
(4) to actively work to prevent, publicly denounce, and 
end human trafficking including with respect to forced labor, 
whether sponsored by the government of a foreign country 
or not, and to restore the lives of those affected by human 
trafficking, a modern form of slavery; 
(5) to regard the prevention of atrocities as it is in the 
national interest of the United States, including efforts to pre-
vent torture, enforced disappearances, severe deprivation of 
liberty, including mass internment, arbitrary detention, and 
widespread and systematic use of forced labor, and persecution 
targeting any identifiable ethnic or religious group; and 
(6) to address gross violations of human rights in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region— 
(A) through bilateral diplomatic channels and multilat-
eral institutions where both the United States and the 
People’s Republic of China are members; and
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(B) using all the authorities available to the United 
States Government, including visa and financial sanctions, 
export restrictions, and import controls. 
SEC. 2. STRATEGY TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF 
GOODS MADE THROUGH FORCED LABOR IN THE XINJIANG 
UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION. 
(a) PUBLIC COMMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Forced Labor Enforcement 
Task Force, established under section 741 of the United States- 
Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 
4681), shall publish in the Federal Register a notice soliciting 
public comments on how best to ensure that goods mined, 
produced, or manufactured wholly or in part with forced labor 
in the People’s Republic of China, including by Uyghurs, 
Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tibetans, and members of other persecuted 
groups in the People’s Republic of China, and especially in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, are not imported 
into the United States. 
(2) PERIOD FOR COMMENT.—The Forced Labor Enforcement 
Task Force shall provide the public with not less than 45 
days to submit comments in response to the notice required 
by paragraph (1). 
(b) PUBLIC HEARING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 45 days after the close 
of the period to submit comments under subsection (a)(2), the 
Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force shall conduct a public 
hearing inviting witnesses to testify with respect to the use 
of forced labor in the People’s Republic of China and potential 
measures, including the measures described in paragraph (2), 
to prevent the importation of goods mined, produced, or manu-
factured wholly or in part with forced labor in the People’s 
Republic of China into the United States. 
(2) MEASURES DESCRIBED.—The measures described in this 
paragraph are— 
(A) measures that can be taken to trace the origin 
of goods, offer greater supply chain transparency, and iden-
tify third country supply chain routes for goods mined, 
produced, or manufactured wholly or in part with forced 
labor in the People’s Republic of China; and 
(B) other measures for ensuring that goods mined, 
produced, or manufactured wholly or in part with forced 
labor do not enter the United States. 
(c) DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGY.—After receiving public com-
ments under subsection (a) and holding the hearing required by 
subsection (b), the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of 
National Intelligence, shall develop a strategy for supporting 
enforcement of Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
1307) to prevent the importation into the United States of goods 
mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part with forced 
labor in the People’s Republic of China. 
(d) ELEMENTS.—The strategy developed under subsection (c) 
shall include the following: 
(1) A comprehensive assessment of the risk of importing 
goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part
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with forced labor in the People’s Republic of China, including 
from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or made by 
Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tibetans, or members of other per-
secuted groups in any other part of the People’s Republic of 
China, that identifies, to the extent feasible— 
(A) threats, including through the potential involve-
ment in supply chains of entities that may use forced 
labor, that could lead to the importation into the United 
States from the People’s Republic of China, including 
through third countries, of goods mined, produced, or manu-
factured wholly or in part with forced labor; and 
(B) what procedures can be implemented or improved 
to reduce such threats. 
(2) A comprehensive description and evaluation— 
(A) of ‘‘pairing assistance’’ and ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ 
or any other government labor scheme that includes the 
forced labor of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tibetans, or 
members of other persecuted groups outside of the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region or similar programs of the 
People’s Republic of China in which work or services are 
extracted from Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tibetans, or 
members of other persecuted groups through the threat 
of penalty or for which the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 
Tibetans, or members of other persecuted groups have not 
offered themselves voluntarily; and 
(B) that includes— 
(i) a list of entities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region that mine, produce, or manufacture 
wholly or in part any goods, wares, articles and mer-
chandise with forced labor; 
(ii) a list of entities working with the government 
of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to recruit, 
transport, transfer, harbor or receive forced labor or 
Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or members of other per-
secuted groups out of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
Region; 
(iii) a list of products mined, produced, or manufac-
tured wholly or in part by entities on the list required 
by clause (i) or (ii); 
(iv) a list of entities that exported products 
described in clause (iii) from the People’s Republic 
of China into the United States; 
(v) a list of facilities and entities, including the 
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, that 
source material from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
Region or from persons working with the government 
of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or the 
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for pur-
poses of the ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ program or the 
‘‘pairing-assistance’’ program or any other government 
labor scheme that uses forced labor; 
(vi) a plan for identifying additional facilities and 
entities described in clause (v); 
(vii) an enforcement plan for each such entity 
whose goods, wares articles, or merchandise are 
exported into the United States, which may include