REMINDER: The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Region Alert Enhancements Set to Deploy March 18, 2023

CSMS # 55505234 - REMINDER: The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Region Alert Enhancements Set to Deploy March 18, 2023 U.S. Customs and Border Protection sent this bulletin at 03/15/2023 04:55 PM EDT CSMS # 55505234 - REMINDER: The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Region Alert Enhancements Set to Deploy March 18, 2023 Reminder, on March 18, 2023 , U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will deploy the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Region Alert enhancement to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). This enhancement will provide an early notification to importers and their representative of goods that may have been produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and may be excluded from importation into the United States. This enhancement includes electronic data interchange (EDI) impacts. The UFLPA Region Alert will add three new validations to ACE in specific applications. The validations will be: · Postal code will be a required field. · Users will receive an error message if the postal code provided is not a valid Chinese postal code. · Users will receive a warning message when a XUAR region postal code is provided. The specific applications impacted will be: · Cargo Release (SE) application - only for the Manufacturer (MF) party and only when the country is reported as the People’s Republic of China (CN) in the SE36 and/or SE56 record. · Manufacturer Identification Code ($I) application - when creating or updating a Manufacturer Identification Code with a city located in the People’s Republic of China (CN). For more information on the deployment, please review the information notice available on CBP.gov . Related CSMS Messages - CSMS # 55403002