Portal for UFLPA Admissibility Reviews, WRO Modification Requests Coming in 2024, CBP Says
CBP hopes to deploy a "centralized website portal" by mid-2024 for importers to submit requests for exception, applicability, and admissibility reviews under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, and Withhold Release Orders, the agency said.
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The portal, which will also handle forced labor allegations from the public and requests for the modification of WROs and forced labor findings, was mentioned in a document released Dec. 4 ahead of the upcoming Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for Dec. 13 (see 2312040050).
According to the document, in FY 2023, CBP stopped 4,415 shipments suspected of having been made with forced labor totaling $1.46 billion, the agency said in the same document. This is a 78% increase in value and 21% increase in the number of shipments stopped compared with FY 2022, CBP said. Of those shipments stopped in FY 2023, 4,053 shipments with a value of $1.44 billion were stopped under UFLPA.