H.R. 1724 · Passed House · International Affairs

No Dollars to Uyghur Forced Labor Act

Sponsor: Nathaniel Moran (R-TX)

What it does

• Prohibit the Department of State and USAID from spending federal funds on policies, programs, or contracts that knowingly use goods produced in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or by entities associated with for
• Require the State Department to obtain written assurance from program partners that they will not source goods from Xinjiang and will implement compliance systems to enforce the restriction.
• Allow the State Department to waive the prohibition only after notifying Congress and securing the written assurances specified in the bill.

Official summary

No Dollars to Uyghur Forced Labor Act This bill prohibits the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development from spending funds on a policy, program, or contract that knowingly uses goods from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) or produced by entities associated with forced labor in XUAR. This prohibition includes goods from (1) the XUAR; (2) entities that source materials from the XUAR; or (3) entities involved with forced labor from the XUAR, such as entities in the XUAR that manufacture goods with forced labor or entities working with the XUAR government to transport forced laborers. The State Department may waive this prohibition, after notifying Congress, if it obtains written assurance that the relevant program partner (1) will not use goods produced in the XUAR for the program, and (2) will develop a system to ensure compliance with the bill's prohibitions.

Latest action

May 6, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Committee: Senate Foreign Relations