Senate Finance Committee Says BMW, Jaguar Negligent in UFLPA Compliance
A Senate Finance Committee investigation into forced labor in imported autos' supply chains said that BMW and Jaguar Land Rover, after being notified by Lear Corporation that LAN transformers were made by a company on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, continued to export cars with those parts, or the parts themselves, into the U.S.
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The same part was also sold to Volkswagen, and that company notified CBP that it had a part barred under UFLPA in cars on the water, and the agency allowed the company to segregate the cars at port until the parts could be replaced.
The May 20 report said BMW and Jaguar Land Rover were told in writing in January that JWD, the company on the UFLPA Entity List, was in their supply chains. Not only did they continue to import the parts in their cars, the report said, but, Jaguar Land Rover said it wasn't aware of a link to JWD when asked in April, and BMW said JWD wasn't on its supplier list.
The committee gave the report to the New York Times before it publicly released it; BMW told the Times in a statement that it had taken steps to stop importing the part, and that it would replace the part in cars in the U.S. Jaguar Land Rover didn't respond to the NYT.