IIB 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6210 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
Ensuring 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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Uyghur Forced Labor 
Prevention Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-
gion of China, the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China has, since 2017, arbitrarily detained 
as many as 1.8 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 
and members of other Muslim minority groups in a 
system of extrajudicial mass internment camps, and 
has subjected detainees to forced labor, torture, po-
litical indoctrination, and other severe human rights 
abuses. 
(2) Forced labor exists within the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region’s system of mass in-
ternment camps, and throughout the region, and is 
confirmed by the testimony of former camp detain-
ees, satellite imagery, and official leaked documents 
from the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China as part of a targeted campaign of repression 
of Muslim ethnic minorities. 
(3) In addition to reports from researchers and 
civil society groups documenting evidence that many 
factories and other suppliers in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region are exploiting forced labor, the 
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Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and 
Security on July 22, 2020, added eleven entities to 
the entity list after determining the entities had 
been ‘‘implicated in human rights violations and 
abuses in the implementation of China’s campaign of 
repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor 
and high-technology surveillance against Uyghurs, 
Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority 
groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-
gion’’. 
(4) Audits and efforts to vet products and sup-
ply chains in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-
gion are unreliable due to the extent forced labor 
has been integrated into the regional economy, the 
mixing of involuntary labor with voluntary labor, the 
inability of witnesses to speak freely about working 
conditions given government surveillance and coer-
cion, and the incentive of government officials to 
conceal government-sponsored forced labor. 
(5) The Department of State’s June 2019 Traf-
ficking in Persons Report found that ‘‘Authorities 
offer subsidies incentivizing Chinese companies to 
open factories in close proximity to the internment 
camps, and local governments receive additional 
funds for each inmate forced to work in these sites 
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at a fraction of minimum wage or without any com-
pensation.’’. 
(6) U.S. Customs and Border Protection has 
issued eight ‘‘Withhold Release Orders’’ on certain 
garments, hair products, cotton, processed cotton, 
and computer parts suspected to be produced with 
prison or forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au-
tonomous Region. 
(7) In its 2019 Annual Report, the Congres-
sional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) 
found that products reportedly produced with forced 
labor by current and former mass internment camp 
detainees included textiles, electronics, food prod-
ucts, shoes, tea, and handicrafts. 
(8) Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
U.S.C. 1307) states that it is illegal to import into 
the United States ‘‘goods, wares, articles, and mer-
chandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly 
or in part’’ by forced labor. Such merchandise is 
subject to exclusion or seizure and may lead to 
criminal investigation of the importer. 
(9) The policies of the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China are in contravention of inter-
national human rights instruments signed by that 
government, including— 
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(A) the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights and the International Covenant on Civil 
and Political Rights, which the People’s Repub-
lic of China has signed but not yet ratified; 
(B) the International Covenant on Eco-
nomic, Social, and Cultural Rights, ratified by 
the People’s Republic of China in 2001; and 
(C) the United Nations Protocol to Pre-
vent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Per-
sons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo 
Protocol), to which the People’s Republic of 
China has been a state party since February 
2010. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to prohibit the import of all goods, wares, 
articles, or merchandise mined, produced, or manu-
factured, wholly or in part, by forced labor from the 
People’s Republic of China and particularly any such 
goods, wares, articles, or merchandise produced in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China; 
(2) to encourage the international community 
to reduce the import of any goods made with forced 
labor from the People’s Republic of China, particu-
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larly those goods mined, manufactured, or produced 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 
(3) to coordinate with Mexico and Canada to ef-
fectively implement Article 23.6 of the United 
States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to prohibit the im-
portation of goods produced in whole or in part by 
forced or compulsory labor, which includes goods 
produced in whole or in part by forced or compul-
sory labor in the People’s Republic of China; 
(4) to actively work to prevent, publicly de-
nounce, and end human trafficking as a horrific as-
sault on human dignity and to restore the lives of 
those affected by human trafficking, a modern form 
of slavery; 
(5) to regard the prevention of atrocities as in 
its national interest, including efforts to prevent tor-
ture, enforced disappearances, severe deprivation of 
liberty, including mass internment, arbitrary deten-
tion, and widespread and systematic use of forced 
labor, and persecution targeting any identifiable eth-
nic or religious group; and 
(6) to address gross violations of human rights 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region through 
bilateral diplomatic channels and multilateral insti-
tutions where both the United States and the Peo-
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ple’s Republic of China are members and with all 
the authorities available to the United States Gov-
ernment, including visa and financial sanctions, ex-
port restrictions, and import controls. 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF GOODS MADE 
IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS RE-
GION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), all goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, 
produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, or by per-
sons working with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-
gion government for purposes of the ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ 
program or the ‘‘pairing-assistance’’ program which sub-
sidizes the establishment of manufacturing facilities in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, shall be deemed to 
be goods, wares, articles, and merchandise described in 
section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307) 
and shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of 
the United States. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—The prohibition described in sub-
section (a) shall not apply if the Commissioner of U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection— 
(1) determines, by clear and convincing evi-
dence, that any specific goods, wares, articles, or 
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merchandise described in subsection (a) were not 
produced wholly or in part by convict labor, forced 
labor, or indentured labor under penal sanctions; 
and 
(2) submits to the appropriate congressional 
committees and makes available to the public a re-
port that contains such determination. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect 
on the date that is 120 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 5. ENFORCEMENT STRATEGY TO ADDRESS FORCED 
LABOR IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONO-
MOUS REGION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Forced Labor En-
forcement Task Force, established under section 741 of 
the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementa-
tion Act (19 U.S.C. 4681), shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report that contains an en-
forcement strategy to effectively address forced labor in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The 
enforcement strategy shall describe the specific enforce-
ment plans of the United States Government regarding— 
(1) goods, wares, articles, and merchandise de-
scribed in section 4(a) that are imported into the 
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United States directly from the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region; 
(2) goods, wares, articles, and merchandise de-
scribed in section 4(a) that are imported into the 
United States from the People’s Republic of China 
and are mined, produced, or manufactured in part 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or by 
persons working with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region government for purposes of the ‘‘pov-
erty alleviation’’ program or the ‘‘pairing-assistance’’ 
program; and 
(3) goods, wares, articles, and merchandise de-
scribed in section 4(a) that are imported into the 
United States from third countries and are mined, 
produced, or manufactured in part in the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region or by persons working 
with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region gov-
ernment for purposes of the ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ 
program or the ‘‘pairing-assistance’’ program. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The strategy re-
quired by subsection (a) shall include the following: 
(1) A description of the actions taken by the 
United States Government to address forced labor in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under sec-
tion 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
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1307), including a description of all Withhold Re-
lease Orders issued, goods detained, and fines 
issued. 
(2) A list of products made wholly or in part 
by forced or involuntary labor in the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region and a list of businesses 
that sold products in the United States made wholly 
or in part by forced or involuntary labor in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
(3) A list of facilities and entities, including the 
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, that 
source material from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region or by persons working with the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region government 
for purposes of the ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ program or 
the ‘‘pairing-assistance’’ program, a plan for identi-
fying additional such facilities and entities, and 
facility- and entity-specific enforcement plans, in-
cluding issuing specific Withhold Release Orders to 
support enforcement of section 4, with regard to 
each listed facility or entity. 
(4) A list of high-priority sectors for enforce-
ment, which shall include cotton and tomatoes, and 
a sector-specific enforcement plan for each high-pri-
ority sector. 
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(5) A description of the additional resources 
necessary for U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
to effectively implement the enforcement strategy. 
(6) A plan to coordinate and collaborate with 
appropriate nongovernmental organizations and pri-
vate sector entities to discuss the enforcement strat-
egy for products made in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au-
tonomous Region. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 
a classified annex, if necessary. 
(d) UPDATES.—The Forced Labor Enforcement 
Task Force shall provide briefings to the appropriate con-
gressional committees on a quarterly basis and, as applica-
ble, on any updates to the strategy required by subsection 
(a) or any additional actions taken to address forced labor 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, including ac-
tions described in this Act. 
(e) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to have effect 
on the earlier of— 
(1) the date that is 8 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act; or 
(2) the date on which the President submits to 
the appropriate congressional committees a deter-
mination that the Government of the People’s Re-
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public of China has ended mass internment, forced 
labor, and any other gross violations of human 
rights experienced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 
and members of other Muslim minority groups in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
SEC. 6. DETERMINATION RELATING TO CRIMES AGAINST 
HUMANITY OR GENOCIDE IN THE XINJIANG 
UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
shall— 
(1) determine if the practice of forced labor or 
other crimes against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 
and members of other Muslim minority groups in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China 
can be considered systematic and widespread and 
therefore constitutes crimes against humanity or 
constitutes genocide as defined in subsection (a) of 
section 1091 of title 18, United States Code; and 
(2) submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees and make available to the public a report 
that contains such determination. 
(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a)— 
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but 
may include a classified annex, if necessary; and 
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(2) may be included in the report required by 
section 7. 
SEC. 7. DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TO ADDRESS FORCED 
LABOR IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONO-
MOUS REGION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
in coordination with the heads of other appropriate Fed-
eral departments and agencies, shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report that contains a 
United States strategy to promote initiatives to enhance 
international awareness of and to address forced labor in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The strategy re-
quired by subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) a plan to enhance bilateral and multilateral 
coordination, including sustained engagement with 
the governments of United States partners and al-
lies, to end forced labor of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 
Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority 
groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 
(2) public affairs, public diplomacy, and 
counter-messaging efforts to promote awareness of 
the human rights situation, including forced labor in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; and 
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(3) opportunities to coordinate and collaborate 
with appropriate nongovernmental organizations and 
private sector entities to raise awareness about 
forced labor made products from the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region and to provide assist-
ance to Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of 
other Muslim minority groups, including those for-
merly detained in mass internment camps in the re-
gion. 
(c) ADDITIONAL MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The 
report required by subsection (a) shall also include— 
(1) to the extent practicable, a list of— 
(A) entities in the People’s Republic of 
China or affiliates of such entities that directly 
or indirectly use forced or involuntary labor in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; and 
(B) Foreign persons that acted as agents 
of the entities or affiliates of entities described 
in subparagraph (A) to import goods into the 
United States; and 
(2) a description of actions taken by the United 
States Government to address forced labor in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under existing 
authorities, including— 
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(A) the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (Public Law 106–386; 22 U.S.C. 7101 
et seq.); 
(B) the Ellie Wiesel Genocide and Atroc-
ities Prevention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115– 
441; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note); and 
(C) the Global Magnitsky Human Rights 
Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 2656 note). 
(d) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 
a classified annex, if necessary. 
(e) UPDATES.—The Secretary of State shall include 
any updates to the strategy required by subsection (a) in 
the annual Trafficking in Persons report required by sec-
tion 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)). 
(f) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to have effect 
the earlier of— 
(1) the date that is 8 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act; or 
(2) the date on which the President submits to 
the appropriate congressional committees a deter-
mination that the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China has ended mass internment, forced 
labor, and any other gross violations of human 
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rights experienced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 
and members of other Muslim minority groups in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
SEC. 8. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS RELATING TO FORCED 
LABOR IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONO-
MOUS REGION. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not 
less frequently than annually thereafter, the Presi-
dent shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report that identifies each foreign per-
son, including any official of the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China, that the President deter-
mines— 
(A) knowingly engages in, is responsible 
for, or facilitates the forced labor of Uyghurs, 
Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Mus-
lim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region of China; and 
(B) knowingly engages in, contributes to, 
assists, or provides financial, material or tech-
nological support for efforts to contravene 
United States law regarding the importation of 
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forced labor goods from the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region. 
(2) FORM.—The report required under para-
graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may contain a classified annex. 
(b) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.—The President shall 
impose the sanctions described in subsection (c) with re-
spect to each foreign person identified in the report re-
quired under subsection (a)(1). 
(c) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) ASSET BLOCKING.—The President shall ex-
ercise all of the powers granted to the President 
under the International Emergency Economic Pow-
ers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent nec-
essary to block and prohibit all transactions in prop-
erty and interests in property of a foreign person 
identified in the report required under subsection 
(a)(1) if such property and interests in property— 
(A) are in the United States; 
(B) come within the United States; or 
(C) come within the possession or control 
of a United States person. 
(2) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, OR 
PAROLE.— 
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(A) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—An 
alien described in subsection (a)(1) is— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 
documentation to enter the United States; 
and 
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
or paroled into the United States or to re-
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—An alien described 
in subsection (a)(1) is subject to revocation 
of any visa or other entry documentation 
regardless of when the visa or other entry 
documentation is or was issued. 
(ii) IMMEDIATE
EFFECT.—A revoca-
tion under clause (i) shall— 
(I) take effect immediately; and 
(II) automatically cancel any 
other valid visa or entry documenta-
tion that is in the alien’s possession. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 
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(1) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President may ex-
ercise all authorities provided under sections 203 
and 205 of the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out 
this section. 
(2) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in 
subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a foreign person that 
violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or 
causes a violation of paragraph (1) to the same ex-
tent that such penalties apply to a person that com-
mits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of 
such section 206. 
(e) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions under this section with respect to a for-
eign person identified in the report required under sub-
section (a)(1) if the President determines and certifies to 
the appropriate congressional committees that such a 
waiver is in the national interest of the United States. 
(f) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) EXCEPTION
FOR
INTELLIGENCE
ACTIVI-
TIES.—Sanctions under this section shall not apply 
to any activity subject to the reporting requirements 
under title V of the National Security Act of 1947 
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(50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) or any authorized intel-
ligence activities of the United States. 
(2) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
INTER-
NATIONAL OBLIGATIONS AND FOR LAW ENFORCE-
MENT
ACTIVITIES.—Sanctions 
under 
subsection 
(c)(2) shall not apply with respect to an alien if ad-
mitting or paroling the alien into the United States 
is necessary— 
(A) to permit the United States to comply 
with the Agreement regarding the Head-
quarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake 
Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force 
November 21, 1947, between the United Na-
tions and the United States, or other applicable 
international obligations; or 
(B) to carry out or assist law enforcement 
activity in the United States. 
(g) TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.—The President 
may terminate the application of sanctions under this sec-
tion with respect to a foreign person if the President deter-
mines and reports to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees not less than 15 days before the termination takes 
effect that— 
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(1) information exists that the person did not 
engage in the activity for which sanctions were im-
posed; 
(2) the person has been prosecuted appro-
priately for the activity for which sanctions were im-
posed; 
(3) the person has credibly demonstrated a sig-
nificant change in behavior, has paid an appropriate 
consequence for the activity for which sanctions were 
imposed, and has credibly committed to not engage 
in an activity described in subsection (a)(1) in the 
future; or 
(4) the termination of the sanctions is in the 
national security interests of the United States. 
(h) SUNSET.—This section, and any sanctions im-
posed under this section, shall terminate on the date that 
is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(i) 
DEFINITIONS
OF
ADMISSION; 
ADMITTED; 
ALIEN.—In this section, the terms ‘‘admission’’, ‘‘admit-
ted’’, and ‘‘alien’’ have the meanings given those terms 
in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101). 
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SEC. 9. DISCLOSURES TO THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 
COMMISSION OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RE-
LATED TO THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONO-
MOUS REGION. 
(a) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the policy of the 
United States to protect American investors, through 
stronger disclosure requirements, alerting them to the 
presence of Chinese and other companies complicit in 
gross violations of human rights in United States capital 
markets, including American and foreign companies listed 
on United States exchanges that enable the mass intern-
ment and population surveillance of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 
Kyrgyz, and other Muslim minorities and source products 
made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region of China. Such involvements represent clear, 
material risks to the share values and corporate reputa-
tions of certain of these companies and hence to prospec-
tive American investors, particularly given that the United 
States Government has employed sanctions and export re-
strictions to target individuals and entities contributing to 
human rights abuses in the People’s Republic of China. 
(b) DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RELATING 
TO THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 13 of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
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‘‘(i) any entity engaged in the ‘pair-
ing-assistance’ program which subsidizes 
the establishment of manufacturing facili-
ties in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
Region; or 
‘‘(ii) any entity for which the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security has issued a 
‘Withhold Release Order’ under section 
307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
1307); or 
‘‘(D) knowingly conducted any transaction 
or had dealings with— 
‘‘(i) any person the property and in-
terests in property of which were sanc-
tioned by the Secretary of State for the de-
tention or abuse of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 
Kyrgyz, or other members of Muslim mi-
nority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au-
tonomous Region; 
‘‘(ii) any person the property and in-
terests in property of which are sanctioned 
pursuant to the Global Magnitsky Human 
Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 2656 
note); or 
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‘‘(iii) any person or entity responsible 
for, or complicit in, committing atrocities 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-
gion. 
‘‘(2) INFORMATION REQUIRED.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If an issuer described 
under paragraph (1) or an affiliate of the issuer 
has engaged in any activity described in para-
graph (1), the information required by this 
paragraph is a detailed description of each such 
activity, including— 
‘‘(i) the nature and extent of the ac-
tivity; 
‘‘(ii) the gross revenues and net prof-
its, if any, attributable to the activity; and 
‘‘(iii) whether the issuer or the affil-
iate of the issuer (as the case may be) in-
tends to continue the activity. 
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The requirement to 
disclose information under this paragraph shall 
not include information on activities of the 
issuer or any affiliate of the issuer activities re-
lating to— 
‘‘(i) the import of manufactured 
goods, including electronics, food products, 
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textiles, shoes, and teas, that originated in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 
or 
‘‘(ii) manufactured goods containing 
materials that originated or are sourced in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
‘‘(3) NOTICE OF DISCLOSURES.—If an issuer 
reports under paragraph (1) that the issuer or an 
affiliate of the issuer has knowingly engaged in any 
activity described in that paragraph, the issuer shall 
separately file with the Commission, concurrently 
with the annual or quarterly report under subsection 
(a), a notice that the disclosure of that activity has 
been included in that annual or quarterly report that 
identifies the issuer and contains the information re-
quired by paragraph (2). 
‘‘(4) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION.— 
Upon receiving a notice under paragraph (3) that an 
annual or quarterly report includes a disclosure of 
an activity described in paragraph (1), the Commis-
sion shall promptly— 
‘‘(A) transmit the report to— 
‘‘(i) the President; 
‘‘(ii) the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs and the Committee on Financial 
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Services of the House of Representatives; 
and 
‘‘(iii) the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; 
and 
‘‘(B) make the information provided in the 
disclosure and the notice available to the public 
by posting the information on the Internet 
website of the Commission. 
‘‘(5) INVESTIGATIONS.—Upon receiving a re-
port under paragraph (4) that includes a disclosure 
of an activity described in paragraph (1), the Presi-
dent shall— 
‘‘(A) make a determination with respect to 
whether any investigation is needed into the 
possible imposition of sanctions under the Glob-
al Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2656 note) or section 8 of the 
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act or wheth-
er criminal investigations are warranted under 
statutes intended to hold accountable individ-
uals or entities involved in the importation of 
goods produced by forced labor, including under 
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section 545, 1589, or 1761 of title 18, United 
States Code; and 
‘‘(B) not later than 180 days after initi-
ating any such investigation, make a determina-
tion with respect to whether a sanction should 
be imposed or criminal investigations initiated 
with respect to the issuer or the affiliate of the 
issuer (as the case may be). 
‘‘(6) ATROCITIES DEFINED.—In this subsection, 
the term ‘atrocities’ has the meaning given the term 
in section 6(2) of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and 
Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115– 
441; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note).’’. 
(c) SUNSET.—Section 13(s) of the Securities Ex-
change Act of 1934, as added by subsection (b), is re-
pealed on the earlier of— 
(1) the date that is 8 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act; or 
(2) the date on which the President submits to 
the appropriate congressional committees a deter-
mination that the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China has ended mass internment, forced 
labor, and any other gross violations of human 
rights experienced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 
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and members of other Muslim minority groups in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (b) shall take effect with respect to reports re-
quired to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission after the date that is 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Financial Services, and the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Finance 
of the Senate. 
(2) ATROCITIES.—The term ‘‘atrocities’’ has 
the meaning given the term in section 6(2) of the 
Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act 
of 2018 (Public Law 115–441; 22 U.S.C. 2656 
note). 
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(3) CRIMES
AGAINST
HUMANITY.—The term 
‘‘crimes against humanity’’ includes, when com-
mitted as part of a widespread or systematic attack 
directed against any civilian population, with knowl-
edge of the attack— 
(A) murder; 
(B) deportation or forcible transfer of pop-
ulation; 
(C) torture; 
(D) extermination; 
(E) enslavement; 
(F) rape, sexual slavery, or any other form 
of sexual violence of comparable severity; 
(G) persecution against any identifiable 
group or collectivity on political, racial, na-
tional, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, or 
other grounds that are universally recognized as 
impermissible under international law; and 
(H) enforced disappearance of persons. 
(4) FORCED LABOR.—The term ‘‘forced labor’’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 307 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 
(5) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
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(6) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
(7) MASS
POPULATION
SURVEILLANCE
SYS-
TEM.—The term ‘‘mass population surveillance sys-
tem’’ means installation and integration of facial 
recognition cameras, biometric data collection, cell 
phone surveillance, and artificial intelligence tech-
nology with the ‘‘Sharp Eyes’’ and ‘‘Integrated Joint 
Operations Platform’’ or other technologies that are 
used by Chinese security forces for surveillance and 
big-data predictive policing. 
(8) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 
United States; or 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 
United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity. 
SEC. 11. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
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Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 22, 
2020. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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