The US department of homeland security (DHS), on behalf of the Forced Labour Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), yesterday announced addition of 37 entities to the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, marking the largest single expansion of the list to date. Among the new entities is one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers.The 26 new entities in the cotton sector are Huafu Fashion Co Ltd and 25 of its subsidiaries engaged in production and sale of cotton and cotton products. Huafu maintains a vertically integrated supply chain from cotton planting in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), processing and yarn spinning to textiles manufacturing.
The US department of homeland security, on behalf of the Forced Labour Enforcement Task Force, has announced addition of 37 entities to the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act Entity List, marking the largest single expansion of the list to date. The 26 new entities in the cotton sector are Huafu Fashion and 25 of its subsidiaries engaged in production and sale of cotton and cotton products.
Twenty-two of these subsidiaries are located in the XUAR, and three are located in Ningbo city in the Zhejiang province.
The 25 Huafu Fashion subsidiaries are:
- Ningbo Huafu Donghao Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Ninghai Huafu Textile Co., Ltd.
- Zhejiang Weixin Trading Co., Ltd.
- Aksu Huafu Color Spinning Co., Ltd. (also known as: Aksu Huafu Textiles Co., Ltd. Akesu Huafu, Aksu Huafu Dyed Melange Yarn, and Akesu Huafu Melange Yarn Co., Ltd.)
- Aksu Biaoxin Fiber Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Aksu Shangheng Fiber Co., Ltd.)
- Xinjiang Huafu Textile Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Huafu Hengfeng Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
- Kuche Zongheng Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Huafu Hongfeng Agricultural Development Co., Ltd.
- Shaya Yinhua Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
- Awati Huafu Textile Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Huafu Color Spinning Group Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Huafu Cotton Industry Group Co., Ltd.
- Shihezi Standard Fiber Co., Ltd.
- Shihezi Huafu Hongfeng Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
- Shihezi Huafu Hongsheng Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Tianhong Xinba Cotton Industry Co., Ltd. (also known as Xinjiang Tianhong New Eight Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.)
- Huyanghe Huafu Hongsheng Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Liufu Textile Industrial Park Co., Ltd.
- Kuitun Jinfu Textile Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Tianfu Cotton Supply Chain Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Cotton Industry Group Yuepu Lake Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Cotton Industry Group Jiashi Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Zefu Cotton Co., Ltd.
- Xinjiang Shengfu Cotton Industry Co., Ltd.
“The FLETF has reasonable cause to believe, based on specific and articulable information, that the entities source cotton or cotton-based products from the XUAR. This information has been corroborated by publicly available sources,” a DHS release said.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)
