{"identifier":"/us/usc/t10/s2496","title":10,"num":"\u00a7\u202f2496.","heading":"Sale of certain goods from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region prohibited","text":"\u00a7\u202f2496.\nSale of certain goods from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region prohibited\n(a)\nProhibition.\u2014\nThe Secretary of Defense may not knowingly permit the sale, at a commissary store or military exchange, of any good, ware, article, or merchandise\u2014\n(1) containing any product mined, produced, or manufactured, wholly or in part, by forced labor from the XUAR; or\n(2) from an entity that has used labor from within or transferred from XUAR as part of a \u201cpoverty alleviation\u201d or \u201cpairing assistance\u201d program.\n(b)\nDefinitions.\u2014\nIn this section:\n(1) The term \u201cforced labor\u201d means any work or service that is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for nonperformance and that the worker does not offer to perform.\n(2) The term \u201cXUAR\u201d means the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People\u2019s Republic of China.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t10/s2496.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2496","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f2496."},{"t":"heading","text":"Sale of certain goods from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region prohibited"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2496/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Prohibition.\u2014"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"The Secretary of Defense may not knowingly permit the sale, at a commissary store or military exchange, of any good, ware, article, or merchandise\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2496/a/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" containing any product mined, produced, or manufactured, wholly or in part, by forced labor from the XUAR; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2496/a/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" from an entity that has used labor from within or transferred from XUAR as part of a \u201cpoverty alleviation\u201d or \u201cpairing assistance\u201d program.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2496/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions.\u2014"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"In this section:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2496/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" The term \u201cforced labor\u201d means any work or service that is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for nonperformance and that the worker does not offer to perform.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2496/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" The term \u201cXUAR\u201d means the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People\u2019s Republic of China.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}