Your supplier is on the UFLPA Entity List

A seven-step play for a supply chain compliance firm or an alternative supplier. It starts from Tendata, stacks DHS UFLPA Entity List, UN Comtrade and CBP on top, and ends in a message to the importer's sourcing or compliance lead that is useful before anyone replies.

Deploy in Glider

Installs this workflow, five project tables and a draft campaign. Source access and any external outputs are checked before research.

Category: Trade, logistics and hardware
Sources: 4
Steps: 7

The workflow

TriggerTendataImporter shipment records and suppliers
Evidence
DHS UFLPA Entity ListThe UFLPA Entity List and listing dates UN ComtradeOther countries exporting the same goods CBPWithhold release orders
Artifact
What you hand overA risk sheet: affected shipments, the listing date, and vetted alternative suppliers for the same HS code.
Contact
GliderFinds the importer's sourcing or compliance lead, with a verified work email and a phone
Message
Send itFrom your own mailboxes, evidence attached

Why it earns attention

Goods tied to an entity on the UFLPA list can be detained at the border. An importer still buying from one needs alternatives before the next shipment, not after it is held.

The play in seven steps

01
Map each importer's suppliers
Tendata
What you pull
Bills of lading for the importer: supplier name, HS code, product description and dates.
Why it matters
It shows exactly who they buy from and how often, which is the exposure.
Example
2 shipments this year · apparel, HS 6109 · from one supplier
02
Match suppliers against the list
DHS UFLPA Entity List
What you pull
Entities on the UFLPA Entity List and the date each was added, matched to the supplier names.
Why it matters
A match means goods from that supplier face a presumption of forced labor at the border.
Example
Supplier added to the list in August
03
Find alternatives
UN Comtrade
What you pull
Countries exporting the same HS code at volume, and their growth.
Why it matters
The importer's next question is where else to buy. Arriving with the answer is the value.
Example
HS 6109 exports: Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia growing
04
Build the risk sheet
Your artifact
What you build
The affected bills of lading, the listing, and four alternative suppliers with country, capacity and certifications.
Why it works
The compliance lead can act before the next order is placed.
Example
2 shipments affected · listed in August · 4 vetted alternatives
05
Check before you send
Name matching is error-prone. Confirm the supplier is the listed entity, not a similarly named one, before you write a word.
06
Find the importer's sourcing or compliance lead in Glider
Glider
Search for
Head of trade complianceDirector of sourcingSupply chain directorVP operations
Why them
Compliance owns the detention risk. Sourcing owns the supplier change.
What you get
A work email and a direct phone, with the email verified before it goes into a sequence.
07
Send the evidence, then run the first test
To: the importer's sourcing or compliance leadEvery line comes from a step above
Two of your shipments this year came from a supplier¹ that was added to the UFLPA Entity List in August.² Goods tied to it face detention at the border. I put the bills of lading, the listing, and four alternative suppliers for the same HS code on one sheet.⁴ Want it before your next order?
- Facts from the data (the number is the step)
- What you built for them
- One small ask
Why it works
It points to their own shipments and a public listing, with a deadline set by their next order, and it brings the alternatives.
First test
One listing, every importer with a verified recent shipment from that entity.
Success looks like
Three sourcing calls out of fifteen exposed importers.