Solar panel shipments from China are coming under scrutiny of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) following a law passed last year that seeks to block Chinese solar imports made using forced labor of the Uyghur community in the Xinjiang region.
In June last year, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) came into effect. “Between June 2022 and January 2023, 2,692 shipments were identified as potentially violating the terms of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act,” a CBP spokesperson said to Fox News. “These shipments were valued at $817,466,574.”
The law passed with bipartisan support and was signed by President Joe Biden in December 2021. According to the act, all goods produced in China’s Xinjiang region, whether in whole or in part, are prohibited from being imported into the United States unless the importers receive an exception….