By: Brian Walczyk, Compliance Manager, TradeInsights, LCB, CCS

The Department of Homeland Security is adding three companies to the list of entities that may be using forced labor from the Xinjiang region of China, it stated in Federal Register 91 FR 68159. The additions are effective October 29, 2026.

BGI Genomics, MGI Tech and Shenzhen BGI Technology (a.k.a. BGI Group and BGI Holdings), will be added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list. The full list now includes 190 entities and can be viewed here.

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