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U.S. DOL list of products that government contractors must verify are free of child labor

The updated list put out by the U.S. DOL regarding products that government contractors must verify are free of child labor:

https://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/ilab/ILAB20100914.htm

Executive Order 13126

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Executive Order 13126 [Text] [PDF] on the “Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor,” was signed on June 12, 1999. The EO is intended to ensure that federal agencies enforce laws relating to forced or indentured child labor in the procurement process. It requires the Department of Labor, in consultation with the Departments of State and Homeland Security, to publish and maintain a list of products, by country of origin, which the three Departments have a reasonable basis to believe, might have been mined, produced or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor. Under the procurement regulations implementing the Executive Order, federal contractors who supply products on a list published by the Department of Labor must certify that they have made a good faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labor was used to produce the items listed.

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