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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 4350 (Reported in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for militar... · Sec. 836

Sec. 836. Prohibition on certain procurements from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Defense may be obligated or expended to procure any products mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part by forced labor from XUAR or from an entity that has used labor from within or transferred from XUAR as part of a poverty alleviation or pairing assistance program. The Secretary of Defense shall issue rules not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act to require a certification from offerors for contracts with the Department of Defense stating the offeror has made a good faith effort to determine that forced labor from XUAR, as described in subsection (a), was not or will not be used in the performance of such contract.
In this section: The term forced labor means all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily. The term person means— a natural person, corporation, company, business association, partnership, society, trust, or any other nongovernmental entity, organization, or group; or any successor, subunit, parent entity, or subsidiary of, or any entity under common ownership or control with, any entity described in subparagraph (A).
The term XUAR means the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.
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