Importing WooCommerce product automatically marked as draft

Hi,

I’m importing products from a platform directly to my shop in a category named “pending”. I have to make some modifications (change image, text, HTML/CSS…) before publishing them so I need all these products to be not published when they’re imported.

I wonder to know if there is a possibility to set automatically all the products from this specific category as “draft”?

I use this snippet (found here) to hide all products from this category but they still appear in some location of my theme (latest product widget, related product…).

    add_action( 'woocommerce_product_query', 'bbloomer_hide_products_category_shop' );       
    function bbloomer_hide_products_category_shop( $q ) {      
        $tax_query = (array) $q->get( 'tax_query' );      
        $tax_query[] = array(
               'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
               'field' => 'slug',
               'terms' => array( 'chairs' ), // Category slug here
               'operator' => 'NOT IN'
        );      
        $q->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query );      
    }

Setting all these products as “draft” would be the best solution for me so if anyone could give me a clue on how to achieve this (or if it’s even possible), that would be great ??