---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2496"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2496"
heading: "Sale of certain goods from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region prohibited"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2496"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 147 — Commissaries and Exchanges and Other Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Activities"
  - "Subchapter III — Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Programs and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities"
---

# §2496. Sale of certain goods from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region prohibited

- (a) **Prohibition.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may not knowingly permit the sale, at a commissary store or [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) exchange, of any good, ware, article, or merchandise—
  - (1) containing any product mined, produced, or manufactured, wholly or in part, by forced labor from the XUAR; or
  - (2) from an entity that has used labor from within or transferred from XUAR as part of a “poverty alleviation” or “pairing assistance” [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1).
- (b) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “forced labor” means any work or service that is exacted from any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) under the menace of any penalty for nonperformance and that the worker does not offer to perform.
  - (2) The term “XUAR” means the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–263, div. A, title VI, § 651(a), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 2639.)