The US Department of Homeland Security has secured direct, ongoing access to Pamir Solutions' supply-chain risk platform, giving the regulator entity-level intelligence on forced labour at Chinese factories operating outside Xinjiang.

The arrangement makes Pamir's assessments — built on multilingual primary-source research — available to officials at the DHS Entity List Office, the unit that maintains the roster of companies targeted under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).

What does the platform cover?

Pamir's tool targets a documented enforcement gap: state-led labour transfer programmes that move workers from Xinjiang to factories in other Chinese provinces. Conventional supply-chain traceability rarely flags these sites, leaving brands and importers exposed to UFLPA detentions even when their direct suppliers are not Xinjiang-based.

The platform assembles evidence on workforce composition, recruitment practices, and the role of Chinese government agencies and intermediaries at the company and worksite level. Pamir says the intelligence is updated regularly as new evidence emerges.

Pamir Solutions co-founder and director Daniel Murphy said: "Effective due diligence depends on being able to identify risk before it is apparent from conventional supply chain data. Pamir's role is to help turn difficult, fragmented evidence into clear, entity-level intelligence. We are pleased to make that intelligence available to the DHS Entity List Office."

How does this connect to the August Entity List expansion?

The DHS-Pamir pipeline follows the department's August expansion of the UFLPA Entity List by 43 companies — the largest single update since the law took effect. Entities added included companies named for recruiting or transferring workers from Xinjiang.

Under the UFLPA, US law presumes goods tied to Xinjiang or to listed entities are the product of forced labour and bars their import unless the importer proves otherwise. The DHS runs the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force that maintains the list, while US Customs and Border Protection carries out port-of-entry enforcement.

What does this change for sourcing teams?

For softgoods buyers sourcing from China, the practical effect is faster regulatory signal. Investigations and risk assessments that previously sat behind a commercial subscription now feed directly into the agency that decides which shipments get detained.

The shift also raises the compliance bar. Brands that rely solely on direct-supplier declarations or tier-1 traceability will continue to face UFLPA exposure at the border if their supply chains reach facilities linked to labour transfer programmes, whether or not those facilities sit inside Xinjiang.

Murphy's framing — identifying risk "before it is apparent from conventional supply chain data" — is the operational warning for sourcing teams. The new DHS-Pamir pipeline means evidence on a previously invisible tier of Chinese production can now reach the agency that decides which shipments get held.

The sourcing decision forced by the news: compliance teams handling China-origin softgoods must extend due diligence past tier-1 suppliers and into workforce-composition evidence at the worksite level, or accept the rising risk of UFLPA enforcement on shipments cleared under older traceability assumptions.