Pahara · পাহারা · the watch

Know your UFLPA exposure before CBP does.

Pahara is the importer-side readiness workspace for forced-labor compliance. It pulls the tier-2 and tier-3 records your suppliers have already signed in Proman, shows where your real exposure sits, and assembles a detention-ready dossier from evidence you can verify line by line — not a supplier's say-so.

No guaranteed CBP outcomes. Pahara improves readiness and the quality of your evidence — the decision stays with the agency.

The regime
UFLPA presumes goods are made with forced labor unless you prove otherwise with clear and convincing, independent evidence of a clean upstream chain.
The gap
Most importers can name their tier-1 supplier and almost nothing past it. CBP detains at the cotton, yarn, and fabric tiers classification never reaches.
The cost
A detained shipment runs $50K–$150K in delays, storage, and legal fees — and arrives with a clock already running on your response window.
Why readiness fails

A binder of supplier promises is the weakest evidence in a regime built on suspicion.

UFLPA doesn't ask whether your supplier says the cotton is clean. It asks whether you can prove it independently. That changes what "having documentation" even means.

The usual posture

Collected by hand, trusted on faith

  • PDFs and spreadsheets emailed by suppliers, re-keyed by your team, stale the day they arrive.
  • No way to tell an original record from one edited after the fact.
  • Tier-2 and tier-3 are blank — the exact tiers CBP asks about.
  • When a shipment is detained, the dossier gets assembled in a panic, from scratch.
The Pahara posture

Issued at source, signed, verifiable

  • Records arrive already signed by the factory that issued them, in Proman, upstream of you.
  • Every record is tamper-evident — you can see if anything changed and when.
  • The chain reaches cotton origin through spinning, fabric, and cut-and-sew.
  • The dossier is standing and current, ready the day a letter lands — not started the day it does.
How it works

Evidence flows in, not collected by hand.

Pahara doesn't ask you to re-gather what your suppliers already documented. It consumes the signed records they issued at the source.

1

Suppliers issue at the source

Your Bangladesh suppliers document their chain in Proman and issue signed Digital Product Passport records — cotton origin, spinning, fabric, cut-and-sew — each one cryptographically signed by the party that created it.

2

You pull, you don't re-key

Pahara consumes those records directly into your workspace. Nothing is re-typed, nothing waits in an inbox. What your supplier signed is what your compliance team sees — and the signature travels with it.

3

Exposure surfaces, ranked

Pahara screens against the UFLPA Entity List, flags missing tiers, and ranks your shipments by real exposure — so attention goes where the risk actually is, before a shipment is ever flagged.

4

The dossier is already assembled

A detention-ready CBP dossier composes itself from the verifiable chain — origin to entry — and stays current. If a letter arrives, you respond from a standing position instead of starting the clock at zero.

The difference no dashboard copies

You and your supplier are looking at the same record.

Legacy compliance tools give the brand one view and the factory another, and the two never reconcile. Pahara sits on a shared, consent-governed record: your supplier can see exactly how their data appears to you, and you can see exactly what they signed. No re-collection, no version drift, no "which spreadsheet is current."

That two-sided transparency is the part a screening dashboard structurally can't reproduce — and it's the part that turns a supplier relationship into evidence you can actually stand behind.

What's inside

Built for the moment a shipment is flagged — and every day before it.

Entity List screening

Every supplier in the chain screened against the UFLPA Entity List, with the match — or the clean result — recorded as part of the dossier.

Tier-2 / tier-3 visibility

The upstream tiers brokers and classification miss — cotton, yarn, fabric — traced through to entry, where CBP actually asks.

Standing CBP dossier

A detention-response package that's always current and always recomputable from source — assembled before the letter, not after.

Tamper-evident records

Hash-chained, signed evidence. You can show a record hasn't changed since issue — the kind of "clear and convincing" the regime is written around.

Exposure ranking

Shipments ordered by real risk, so a small compliance team works the exposure that matters first instead of auditing everything equally.

Shared with your suppliers

Consent-governed transparency in both directions — the supplier sees how their data reads to you, and version drift disappears.

For Bangladesh exporters

Turn your compliance work into a reason to buy from you.

You've already done the hard part — documenting your chain in Proman. Pahara lets your US buyer consume that work directly, so they stop chasing you for paperwork and start treating your signed records as the evidence that protects their shipments.

Bring a buyer onto Pahara and you become the supplier whose compliance is effortless to verify. Ask us about the referral incentive for exporters who introduce their importers.

Talk to us about referrals
A
You sign your chain in PromanCotton origin through cut-and-sew — issued once, at the source.
B
You introduce your US buyerOne warm introduction; we handle the onboarding from there.
C
Your buyer pulls your records into PaharaNo re-collection — your signed evidence is their dossier.
D
You earn the referral incentiveAnd the standing of the supplier who's easiest to verify.
Where it sits

One platform. Both ends of the trade relationship.

Pahara is the US importer's side of the same record your suppliers issue from. Proman issues upstream; Pahara consumes downstream; the evidence between them is signed and shared.

Proman · issuer

The factory side. Bangladesh suppliers issue signed Digital Product Passport records for every tier of the chain.

Pahara · you are here

The US importer side. Consume those records, see exposure, and stand a CBP-ready dossier on verifiable evidence.

Darpan · EU side

The EU brand side. The same signed records, composed and submitted for the Digital Product Passport mandate.

Be ready before the letter arrives.

Whether you're an importer who wants exposure mapped, or an exporter who wants to bring a buyer onto verifiable evidence — let's talk through what your chain looks like today.

Pahara improves the quality and readiness of your supply-chain evidence. It does not guarantee any CBP outcome, and it is not legal advice; legal response to a detention is handled with a partner customs attorney.