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 UFLPA HOLD ON A SHIPMENT FROM CHINA

# Got a UFLPA detention notice? The clock is 30 days, and the proof is at the actual factory in China that makes your goods.

###### **The short answer.** A UFLPA detention notice is CBP Form 6051D, usually with a page called Attachment 2-B. It means CBP is holding your goods because something in them may trace back to Xinjiang or to a company on the UFLPA Entity List. You have two ways forward. You can export or destroy the goods, or you can ask CBP for a review and show, with records, where every input came from. CBP counts the 30 days from the date your goods were presented for examination, and that date is printed on the notice. With a good supplier, most of those records already exist. Your broker or counsel can confirm the exact dates for your entry.

###### This is serious, and it is manageable. Under UFLPA, CBP presumes that goods tied to Xinjiang, or to a company on the UFLPA Entity List, were made with forced labor, anywhere in the chain, down to the raw material. Most Chinese suppliers can show where their materials come from once they understand what's needed.

###### The way through is records, not promises. A letter from your supplier saying "no forced labor" isn't enough on its own, but for a good supplier most of the records behind it already exist in the factory, mostly in Chinese.

###### Here is what is happening, what to do today, and what the file has to contain. Then, if you want it, what we do.

 

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## What is a UFLPA detention notice?

###### Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (Public Law 117-78, enforced under 19 U.S.C. §1307), CBP does not have to prove your goods were made with forced labor. It presumes they were, if any input connects to the Xinjiang region or to a listed entity. The importer can rebut it with records. That is the whole law in one sentence.

###### The reasons behind it are good ones. Keep forced labor out of the products people buy. Stop goods being routed through a third country to hide where they were made. Make sure honest factories aren't undercut by ones that cut corners. The result is better, safer products.

###### Look at the notice. It will be one of three things, and they are not the same:

 A UFLPA detention. The goods are held. You can submit evidence, or you can export them. Most China importers reading this page are here.

A Withhold Release Order (WRO). CBP has reasonable suspicion about a specific producer or product. Same choice: prove admissibility or export.

 A Finding. CBP has probable cause. This is a seizure, not a detention, so export isn't an option. You have 30 days to petition.

 The notice tells you which. If you can't tell, that is the first thing to settle today. The clocks and the outcomes are different.

If it's a UFLPA detention, the notice itself is CBP Form 6051D. By regulation it has to tell you the date your goods were presented for examination, the reason for the detention, how long CBP expects it to last, and what questions or tests are coming. For UFLPA, CBP usually attaches Attachment 2-B, which gives examples of records that helped other importers in past reviews. Read it as your list of what to ask your supplier for. Most suppliers will pull those records together once someone sits down with them and explains why CBP needs them.

Source: DOJ/DHS Trade Fraud Guide, July 2026, pp.15 to 16; CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance for Importers, June 2026, pp.12, 26 to 31; 19 CFR 151.16(c); CBP, UFLPA Attachment to the Notice of Detention.

## How long do I have to respond to a UFLPA detention notice?

The 30 days start on the date your goods were presented to CBP for examination. That date is printed on the notice, and it can be days before the notice reaches you. Extensions are counted from the date of the notice itself:

| Action | Time to respond | Then what |
| --- | --- | --- |
| UFLPA detention (potential input) | **30 days** | Up to two 30-day extensions, maximum 90. At the Port Director's discretion, not yours |
| UFLPA (direct input from a listed entity) | 180 days | Exclusion |
| WRO | 3 months | Export or forfeit |
| Finding | **30 days** | Seizure. Petition or lose the goods |
| Redelivery demand | 30 days | Liquidated damages against your bond |

 A few things the table doesn't say. You pay storage while the goods are held, so it helps to start early. An extension is something you ask for and CBP decides, so plan on the first date. If you do nothing within the 30 days, CBP treats the goods as excluded. Have your broker or counsel confirm the dates on your entry.

Source: CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, summary table pp.36 to 37, p.13 (storage, extensions), p.18 (no action in 30 days), p.38; 19 CFR 151.16(e) and (f). Storage: CBP, FAQs: UFLPA Enforcement.

## What should I do first after a UFLPA detention?

###### In this order. You can do all of it yourself.

### 1. Read the notice properly.

 Which authority: UFLPA, WRO, Finding. Which port. The entry number. The name and contact of the CBP officer on it. Write those four things down; every conversation from here starts with them.

### 2. Contact the CBP officer named on the notice.

 Do it early. CBP's own guidance to importers says to open that dialogue immediately, and a named contact at CBP makes every next step easier.

### 3. Tell your customs broker and, if you have one, your trade counsel.

 They will file the response. The records behind it sit with your supplier in China, so that part needs someone there.

### 4. Get your supplier's legal Chinese name and the factory address.

 Not the trading company on the invoice. The entity whose name is on the business license at the place where the goods were made. If you don't know it, that is the first gap in your file.

### 5. Keep CBP contact with you and your broker.

 Ask the factory politely to leave CBP contact to you and your broker. And hold back the "no forced labor" certificate the factory offers. It's well meant, but on its own it carries little weight. CBP is asking for the records behind it.

### 6. Decide early which route you're on.

 Before the first 30 days run out, email the contact on the notice and say which way you're going. You can export or destroy the goods, or you can ask for a review and file the records through CBP's Forced Labor Portal. If you need more time, ask for the extension inside that same window. The next section explains the two kinds of review.

## Which route am I on: applicability review or exception?

###### Two routes, and each needs a different file.

### Applicability review.

 You argue UFLPA doesn't apply to these goods: nothing in the chain touched Xinjiang, nothing was made by a listed entity. You prove it with the supply-chain file described below. This is where most China importers actually are.

### Exception.

 You accept UFLPA may apply and argue the goods still weren't made with forced labor. The standard is clear and convincing evidence, a high bar. If CBP grants one, it reports it to Congress within 30 days and publishes the details, which is why most importers take the first route.

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 DETENTION OR CF-28?

## Is a UFLPA detention the same as a CF-28?

 No, and it helps to know which one you're holding. A detention means CBP is keeping the goods at the port until it decides whether they can enter. A CF-28 is CBP Form 28, a Request for Information. It usually comes after the goods were released, and it asks you to back up what you declared on the entry.

The clocks are different, but the supplier is the same. Both answers rest on records from the actual factory that makes your goods, so the two have to tell the same story. If you got a CF-28 or a CF-29 instead of a detention notice, start here: [What to do with a CF-28 or CF-29 on a China import](https://www.china-agent.com/cf-28-response-china?hsLang=en). If you have both, tell your broker the same day.

Source: 19 CFR 151.11 (CBP Form 28, Request for Information, after release); 19 CFR 151.16 (detention); CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, p.12.

## What documents does CBP want after a UFLPA detention?

###### Ordinary business records. Not a story. CBP's June 2026 guidance lists them in Appendix E, and they come down to five things:

**A map of every step, and who did each.** Cotton to yarn to fabric to garment. Bauxite to billet to extrusion to frame. Which company, at which address, did what.

**Where every material came from.** A certificate or a signed manufacturer's affidavit for each input, naming the entity and the specific place it was mined, smelted, spun or grown. Not "China." The mill.

**The money and the paper at every tier.** Purchase orders, invoices, packing lists, payments, shipping records. For your supplier's suppliers, not only for you.

**Production records that tie input to output.** Production orders, capacity, and (CBP names these specifically) factory site-visit reports and evidence that the volume of material going in matches the goods coming out.

**Proof of how you know who tier two is.** For every company you never dealt with directly, the business record that told you they exist.

One line in the guidance matters most. Appendix B says that if production information is missing for even one supplier in the chain, the submission is insufficient. So the goal is a complete chain, built one supplier at a time.

We've seen a five-tier file held up by a sixth name: a small parts supplier nobody thought mattered. It's worth checking every name early.

Why it takes work: those records sit with companies that have never met you, in Chinese. Most of them are good suppliers. They just haven't been asked for this before, and nobody has explained what CBP wants or why. An email from abroad asking a tier-two supplier to name its smelter rarely gets far. A face-to-face conversation usually does. A few can't show their chain, and it's far better to learn that before the next order than at the port.

*Source: CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, Appendix E pp.56–57; Appendix B pp.49–50.*

## What usually isn't enough for a UFLPA detention?

###### These six things are often offered first. They're well meant, but on their own they don't carry the file:

**The supplier's "no forced labor" letter.** Self-issued, so on its own it carries little weight.

**The audit binder.** BSCI, ISO, a financial audit, an environmental audit. CBP's guidance says none of these count. It wants an unannounced audit, by an independent third party, against the ILO's eleven indicators of forced labor. Your factory may be rightly proud of its binder. It's useful, but it isn't the document CBP asks for here.

**An Entity List screen on your direct supplier only.** CBP asks about inputs. The list is checked against tier two and three, not just the name on your PO.

**"We ship from Vietnam."** A third-country invoice is not a clean chain. If the material or a listed entity sits behind it, the hold stands.

**A certificate with no factory behind it.** Chop from a company that isn't on the PI. Letterhead that doesn't match the license.

**A wage letter with no payroll.** For goods from China, CBP asks for wage payment records and output per worker, and recruitment records showing people came voluntarily. A letter saying workers are paid is not payroll.

*Source: CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, pp.47, 57, 58, 59.*

## How should I organize the file I send CBP?

###### Yes. A tidy file saves days. Appendix C of the CBP guidance says how the packet should look: exhibits numbered and grouped by production stage, an index that says what each document proves, business-confidential information marked, scans that are searchable, and (for anything not in English) the original plus an English translation.

A reviewer opens a folder. When the smelter affidavit is easy to find and every invoice is labeled by tier, the review goes faster. Chinese originals with English translations, indexed, is a bilingual job.

*Source: CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, Appendix C p.54.*

 WHERE WE COME IN

## What we do and what we don't

### We collect the China-side file. On site.

 Legal entity against the PI against the bank account.   
The address on the license against the factory where the goods are made. Who is actually in that factory.  
 Input invoices, and whether they're real.   
Sub-supplier names and addresses, tier by tier, until the chain reaches the material.  
 The payment trail.   
Dated photographs of your goods on the line.   
Input volume against output.   
Affidavits with the factory's chop that your counsel can file.

We get there by sitting with your supplier and its own suppliers face to face, explaining what CBP is asking and why, and helping them get it right. Then the packet is assembled through Asia Agent Pte Ltd, in the Appendix C format, Chinese and English, and your counsel submits it.

### What we are not.

 We are not US trade counsel. Your broker and lawyer file.

A person in China does not stop a detention; the duty stays with you as importer of record, and CBP decides on the evidence.

We are not the independent forced-labor auditor CBP describes. That's a separate third-party audit firm; we coordinate it when the sector calls for it, at a rate we pass through.

## Not detained yet?

Then you have time, and that makes this much easier.

The documents are the same whether CBP asks tomorrow or never. For a good supplier most of them already exist, so the work is collecting them, matching them and keeping them current. Built before a hold, it's steady work with your supplier. Built during one, it runs against CBP's date. Our team builds those documents into a [Reasonable Care File](https://www.china-agent.com/reasonable-care-file?hsLang=en) for each supplier and keeps it current.

###### That is what [Monthly Support is for. →](https://www.china-agent.com/monthly-support-packages?hsLang=en)

*Source: CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, p.50.*

 

 FAQs

## Frequently Asked Questions

 

##### [What is a UFLPA detention notice? A UFLPA detention notice is CBP Form 6051D. CBP issues it when it holds a shipment because an input may come from the Xinjiang region of China or from a company on the UFLPA Entity List. Under 19 CFR 151.16, the notice states the date the goods were presented for examination, the reason for the detention, how long it is expected to last and what inquiries will follow. For UFLPA, CBP usually adds Attachment 2-B, a list of example records that helped importers in past reviews. The importer can export or destroy the goods, or ask CBP for a review and submit supply-chain records. China Agent collects the records that sit with the supplier in China. The importer's customs broker or counsel does the filing.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse1-dnd_area-module-8)

Source: 19 CFR 151.16(c); CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, pp.12 to 13; CBP, UFLPA Attachment to the Notice of Detention.

 

 

##### [How long do I have to respond to a UFLPA detention? For a potential-input UFLPA detention, the importer has 30 days, counted from the date the goods were presented to CBP for examination. That date is printed on the detention notice. If the importer takes no action in that time, CBP treats the goods as excluded. The importer may ask for up to two extensions, no more than 90 calendar days in total from the date of the notice, and approval is at CBP's discretion. A Finding gives 30 days with no extension. A WRO gives three months. The importer's customs broker or counsel can confirm the dates for a specific entry.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse2-dnd_area-module-8)

Source: CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, pp.13, 18 and summary table pp.36 to 37; 19 CFR 151.16(e) and (f).

 

 

##### [Who pays for storage while the shipment is detained? The importer does. CBP's UFLPA FAQs say the importer is responsible for storage costs of detained shipments.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse3-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

 

##### [What does a UFLPA detention cost? There is no single number. The cost depends on how long the goods are held and how the detention ends. CBP's guidance names the main costs. The importer pays storage while the goods are detained and through any review, until CBP decides. CBP may ask for a single-transaction bond of three times the value of the detained goods. If the importer exports or destroys the goods, that cost is the importer's too. Then there is the work itself, which means the broker or counsel who files and the work of collecting the records from the supplier in China. Penalties are a separate and narrower question, for example when CBP demands that released goods be returned and they are not. The importer's broker or counsel can say whether anything like that applies. CBP also says records prepared in advance can greatly speed up release, which is the point of a](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse4-dnd_area-module-8)[Reasonable Care File](https://www.china-agent.com/reasonable-care-file?hsLang=en). China Agent quotes its China-side work as a fixed fee before the work starts.

Source: CBP Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance, June 2026, p.13 (storage, bond, export or destroy), p.38 (redelivery), p.50 (records in advance); CBP, FAQs: UFLPA Enforcement.

 

 

##### [Is a UFLPA detention the same as a CF-28? No. A UFLPA detention means CBP is holding the goods until it decides whether they can enter. A CF-28 is CBP Form 28, a Request for Information. It is usually sent after the goods have been released, and it asks the importer to back up what was declared on the entry. The clocks are different, but both answers rest on records from the same supplier, so the two have to agree. China Agent has](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse5-dnd_area-module-8)[a separate page on answering a CF-28 or a CF-29](https://www.china-agent.com/cf-28-response-china?hsLang=en).

Source: 19 CFR 151.11; 19 CFR 151.16.

 

 

##### [What is the difference between an applicability review and an exception? Applicability review: you show UFLPA doesn't apply (no Xinjiang input, no listed entity anywhere in the chain). Exception: you accept it may apply and prove the goods weren't made with forced labor, to a clear-and-convincing standard. Granted exceptions are reported to Congress and published. Most China importers are on the first route.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse6-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

##### [What happens if one supplier in my chain won't provide records? Under Appendix B of CBP's June 2026 guidance, if production information is missing for even one supplier, the submission is insufficient. Most suppliers do cooperate once someone sits with them and explains what's needed and why. The guidance also says an importer should consider finding a new supplier if one won't.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse7-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

##### [How far up the chain does CBP go? As far as the notice and the product require. For apparel and silica-heavy goods, the hard questions usually sit at tier 2 or 3, not at the exporter.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse8-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

##### [My factory has a BSCI / ISO / SMETA audit. Does that count? Not for this. CBP's guidance says financial, environmental and general audits are not sufficient. It looks for an unannounced audit by an independent third party against the ILO's eleven forced-labor indicators.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse9-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

 

##### [The goods shipped from Vietnam, Cambodia or Malaysia. Does UFLPA still apply? It can. UFLPA follows the input, not the port of loading. If Chinese material or a listed entity sits behind the third-country invoice, the presumption applies. We verify whether real transformation happened in the third country, and what went into it.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse10-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

 

##### [Will lab testing help? It can. CBP says it considers laboratory results (isotopic origin testing for cotton and some minerals) as part of the total evidence package, if the results are credible and specific to the detained goods. It supports the file; it doesn't replace it.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse11-dnd_area-module-8)

##### [Can my customs broker handle this from the US? They file what you give them. They work from the US, so they can't visit the factory, match the chop to the license, or collect tier-two records in China.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse12-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

 

##### [Can someone other than me submit the documents to CBP? Yes. CBP's FAQs say a third party may submit supply-chain documentation, but the importer should be notified. In practice: we collect, Asia Agent Pte Ltd assembles, your counsel or broker submits, and you know every step.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse13-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

##### [Do you work for the factory? No. China Agent does not find factories for you. No commission from any factory. It's the reason a factory's own suppliers will talk to us.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse14-dnd_area-module-8)

 

 

##### [Is this legal advice? No. We are not US trade counsel. We collect the China-side records. Your counsel files.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse15-dnd_area-module-8)

##### [I don't have a detention yet. Does this page apply to me? If your product or its inputs touch cotton, apparel, polysilicon, PVC, aluminum, steel, copper, lithium, seafood, caustic soda, tomatoes or red dates (the twelve sectors CBP prioritizes), the file is worth building now, calmly, with your supplier. For a good supplier it's mostly documents that already exist.](https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#collapse16-dnd_area-module-8)

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  "@id" : "https://www.china-agent.com/uflpa-detention-documentation#faq",
  "@type" : "FAQPage",
  "mainEntity" : [ {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "A UFLPA detention notice is CBP Form 6051D. CBP issues it when it holds a shipment because an input may come from the Xinjiang region of China or from a company on the UFLPA Entity List. Under 19 CFR 151.16, the notice states the date the goods were presented for examination, the reason for the detention, how long it is expected to last and what inquiries will follow. For UFLPA, CBP usually adds Attachment 2-B, a list of example records that helped importers in past reviews. The importer can export or destroy the goods, or ask CBP for a review and submit supply-chain records. China Agent collects the records that sit with the supplier in China. The importer's customs broker or counsel does the filing."
    },
    "name" : "What is a UFLPA detention notice?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "For a potential-input UFLPA detention, the importer has 30 days, counted from the date the goods were presented to CBP for examination. That date is printed on the detention notice. If the importer takes no action in that time, CBP treats the goods as excluded. The importer may ask for up to two extensions, no more than 90 calendar days in total from the date of the notice, and approval is at CBP's discretion. A Finding gives 30 days with no extension. A WRO gives three months. The importer's customs broker or counsel can confirm the dates for a specific entry."
    },
    "name" : "How long do I have to respond to a UFLPA detention?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "The importer does. CBP's UFLPA FAQs say the importer is responsible for storage costs of detained shipments."
    },
    "name" : "Who pays for storage while the shipment is detained?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "There is no single number. The cost depends on how long the goods are held and how the detention ends. CBP's guidance names the main costs. The importer pays storage while the goods are detained and through any review, until CBP decides. CBP may ask for a single-transaction bond of three times the value of the detained goods. If the importer exports or destroys the goods, that cost is the importer's too. Then there is the work itself, which means the broker or counsel who files and the work of collecting the records from the supplier in China. Penalties are a separate and narrower question, for example when CBP demands that released goods be returned and they are not. The importer's broker or counsel can say whether anything like that applies. CBP also says records prepared in advance can greatly speed up release, which is the point of a Reasonable Care File. China Agent quotes its China-side work as a fixed fee before the work starts."
    },
    "name" : "What does a UFLPA detention cost?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "No. A UFLPA detention means CBP is holding the goods until it decides whether they can enter. A CF-28 is CBP Form 28, a Request for Information. It is usually sent after the goods have been released, and it asks the importer to back up what was declared on the entry. The clocks are different, but both answers rest on records from the same supplier, so the two have to agree. China Agent has a separate page on answering a CF-28 or a CF-29."
    },
    "name" : "Is a UFLPA detention the same as a CF-28?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "Applicability review: you show UFLPA doesn't apply (no Xinjiang input, no listed entity anywhere in the chain). Exception: you accept it may apply and prove the goods weren't made with forced labor, to a clear-and-convincing standard. Granted exceptions are reported to Congress and published. Most China importers are on the first route."
    },
    "name" : "What is the difference between an applicability review and an exception?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "Under Appendix B of CBP's June 2026 guidance, if production information is missing for even one supplier, the submission is insufficient. Most suppliers do cooperate once someone sits with them and explains what's needed and why. The guidance also says an importer should consider finding a new supplier if one won't."
    },
    "name" : "What happens if one supplier in my chain won't provide records?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "As far as the notice and the product require. For apparel and silica-heavy goods, the hard questions usually sit at tier 2 or 3, not at the exporter."
    },
    "name" : "How far up the chain does CBP go?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "Not for this. CBP's guidance says financial, environmental and general audits are not sufficient. It looks for an unannounced audit by an independent third party against the ILO's eleven forced-labor indicators."
    },
    "name" : "My factory has a BSCI / ISO / SMETA audit. Does that count?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "It can. UFLPA follows the input, not the port of loading. If Chinese material or a listed entity sits behind the third-country invoice, the presumption applies. We verify whether real transformation happened in the third country, and what went into it."
    },
    "name" : "The goods shipped from Vietnam, Cambodia or Malaysia. Does UFLPA still apply?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "It can. CBP says it considers laboratory results (isotopic origin testing for cotton and some minerals) as part of the total evidence package, if the results are credible and specific to the detained goods. It supports the file; it doesn't replace it."
    },
    "name" : "Will lab testing help?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "They file what you give them. They work from the US, so they can't visit the factory, match the chop to the license, or collect tier-two records in China."
    },
    "name" : "Can my customs broker handle this from the US?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "Yes. CBP's FAQs say a third party may submit supply-chain documentation, but the importer should be notified. In practice: we collect, Asia Agent Pte Ltd assembles, your counsel or broker submits, and you know every step."
    },
    "name" : "Can someone other than me submit the documents to CBP?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "No. China Agent does not find factories for you. No commission from any factory. It's the reason a factory's own suppliers will talk to us."
    },
    "name" : "Do you work for the factory?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "No. We are not US trade counsel. We collect the China-side records. Your counsel files."
    },
    "name" : "Is this legal advice?"
  }, {
    "@type" : "Question",
    "acceptedAnswer" : {
      "@type" : "Answer",
      "text" : "If your product or its inputs touch cotton, apparel, polysilicon, PVC, aluminum, steel, copper, lithium, seafood, caustic soda, tomatoes or red dates (the twelve sectors CBP prioritizes), the file is worth building now, calmly, with your supplier. For a good supplier it's mostly documents that already exist."
    },
    "name" : "I don't have a detention yet. Does this page apply to me?"
  } ]
}
```