Altana: Thousands of Companies Worldwide Exposed to Recent UFLPA Additions
Altana, a New York-based, AI-informed global supply chain mapper, has determined that as many as 18,210 companies across the world could be exposed to corporate entities that DHS earlier this month flagged for potentially violating the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (see 2501140054). Of that group of more than 18,000 companies, 2,223 are U.S. companies.
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Furthermore, two-thirds of the U.S. companies exposed to the recent additions to DHS' UFLPA Entity List are within the retail and apparel sectors, according to Altana, which added that "the Trump administration is likely to add more entities to the list."
On Jan. 14, DHS added 37 companies to the UFLPA Entity List, including cotton and textile manufacturers, mining companies and manufacturers producing solar modules with polysilicon. Thte total number of entities on the list is now 144.