DHS Wants to Be More Transparent on How FLETF Entity List Is Built

Homeland Security Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Tasha Reid Hippolyte said that while the implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in its first two years hasn't been perfect, "I feel like we're in a really good space," even as there are still more pain points to work through with the trade.

Reid Hippolyte, who was speaking at the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee meeting in California June 26, said the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, headed by her boss Robert Slivers, DHS undersecretary for policy, is continuing to look at a pipeline of companies that have been recommended for the Entity List. The FLETF is planning "to be more transparent [in] the way we put entities on the entities list," she said, and importers should expect to see more entities added.

The Entity List has 68 entities on it.