Forced Labour Huafu Fashion, China - 2025
Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd. and several of its subsidiaries were put on the UFLPA list of entities containing companies that source „material from Xinjiang or from persons working with the government of Xinjiang or the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for purposes of the ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ program or the ‘‘pairing-assistance’’ program or any other government-labor scheme that uses forced labor.“ Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd. has an extensive vertically integrated supply chain from cotton cultivation in Xinjiang to textile manufacturing. According to its own website, Huafu contains five production bases in China (Zhejiang, Huang-Huai Valley, Yangtze River, Xinjiang) and Vietnam. It was put on the entity list due to ‘reasonable grounds’ that the companies were sourcing cotton or cotton-based products from Xinjiang. Journalist Jasmin Malik Chua (Sourcing Journal, 2025/01/15) stated that one of the subsidiaries is Aksu Huafu Textiles Co., already named in the 2020 report ‘Uyghurs for Sale’ by Australia Strategic Policy Institute and in a 2021 follow-up report. In 2022, the company was added to the UFLPA entity list because it worked with the Xinjiang government to ‘recruit, transport, transfer, harbour or receive forced labour.’ As a consequence, brands like Adidas, Abercrombie & Fitch, Lacoste, H&M and Zara quickly left the supplier. Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd. has been added to the Open Supply Hub by an auditor / certification scheme / service provider. So, it stays unclear to which international brand Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd. supplies its textile products. Published supplier lists of international brands participating in the Open Supply Hub do not include the companies newly added to the entity list. As Huafu is one of China's leading textile companies and, according to its own website, markets its products in 60 countries and regions around the world (including Europe and Asian countries as well as the US), it is likely that Huafu (pre-) products are also sold on the German market. Most of the newly added textile companies in the entity list do not have an entry in the Open Supply Hub. Only Xinjiang Tianfu Cotton Supply Chain Co, Ltd. (OS ID: CN2024009S9AM8A) and Xinjiang Tianhong New Eight Cotton Industry Co, Ltd (OS ID: CN2024009RBVN5T) are listed there. Read more on: https://sourcingjournal.com/topics/labor/u-s-sanctions-huafu-fashion-forced-labor-blacklist-china-uflpa-1234731121
Basic Information
Case ID: 2025-001
Identification Number from Open Supply Hub (OS-ID): CN2023060JDYRH4
Affected Country: China
Date of occurrence: 2025-01-15
Social Sector Risks concerned:
- Forced labour (Conventions Nr. 29 and PO 29 & 105)
Supplier Details
Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd.
NO. 6, NEW STONE ROAD, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE
Yuzhong County
Lanzhou, Province Gansu
China
Supplier Website: https://www.e-huafu.com/
Production Site
No gender specific information available.
Workers movement
No information about unions available.
No information about workers commitee available.
Business Relations
It is not known, whether at least one of the buyers has the duty to report according to the Supply Chain Act / CSDDD.
Follow up
Sources
Name of reporting organisation: Forced Labour Enforcement Task Force (FLETF)
The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, or the FLETF, is a DHS (Department of Homeland Security)-led Task Force of interagency partners that are dedicated to monitoring the enforcement of the prohibition on importing goods made wholly or in part with forced labor into the United States. Forced labor includes the use of forced, convict, and indentured labor, including forced or indentured child labor.
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Contributor: SÜDWIND
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