2018 LIST OF GOODS PRODUCED BY CHILD LABOR OR …

1 2018 LIST OF GOODS PRODUCED BY CHILD LABOR OR FORCED LABOR A. DOWNLOAD. ILAB'S SWEAT & TOIL AND. COMPLY CHAIN APPS TODAY! Browse GOODS Check PRODUCED with countries' CHILD LABOR or efforts to forced LABOR eliminate CHILD LABOR Sweat & Toil See what 1,000+ pages governments can do to end of research in CHILD LABOR the palm of Review laws and ratifications your hand! Find CHILD LABOR data Explore the key Discover elements best practice of social guidance compliance Comply Chain 1. systems 8. 2. 8 steps to reduce 7 3. CHILD LABOR and 6. 4. forced LABOR in 5. Learn from Assess risks global supply innovative company and impacts in supply chains chains. examples Ahora disponible en espa ol! Maintenant disponible en fran ais! B BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS. How to Access Our Reports We've got you covered!

2 Access our reports in the way that works best for you. ON YOUR COMPUTER. All three of the USDOL flagship reports on international CHILD LABOR and forced LABOR are available on the USDOL website in HTML and PDF formats, at These reports include the Findings on the Worst Forms of CHILD LABOR , as required by the Trade and Development Act of 2000;. the List of Products PRODUCED by Forced or Indentured CHILD LABOR , as required by Executive Order 13126; and the List of GOODS PRODUCED by CHILD LABOR or Forced LABOR , as required by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005. On our website, you can navigate to individual country pages, where you can find information on the prevalence and sectoral distribution of the worst forms of CHILD LABOR in the country, specific GOODS PRODUCED by CHILD LABOR or forced LABOR in the country, the legal framework on CHILD LABOR , enforcement of laws related to CHILD LABOR , coordination of government efforts on CHILD LABOR , government policies related to CHILD LABOR , social programs to address CHILD LABOR , and specific suggestions for government action to address the issue.

3 ON YOUR PHONE. The USDOL Sweat & Toil mobile application contains more than 1,000 pages of research from all three reports. Sweat & Toil helps you easily sort data by region, country, assessment level, good, and type of exploitation, all without the need for an Internet connection. You can download the free App from the iTunes or Google Play store and access the data on our website: apps/ilab. The USDOL Comply Chain: Business Tools for LABOR Compliance in Global Supply Chains mobile application contains best practice guidance for companies on ways to develop strong social compliance systems to reduce CHILD LABOR and forced LABOR in supply chains. The application includes eight modules ranging from stakeholder engagement to code of conduct provisions, and from auditing to remediation to reporting.

4 Companies that are new to social compliance can work through the modules in order, and more experienced companies can select modules based on their continuous improvement goals. You can download the free App from the iTunes or Google Play store, or access it on the USDOL website: ON PAPER. Our Findings report is available in a hard-copy magazine format, which provides an overall summary of the report, regional findings related to meaningful efforts made and gaps for countries to address, and the assessment levels of each of the 132 countries. In addition, our List of GOODS PRODUCED by CHILD LABOR or Forced LABOR is also available in hard copy format. Send an e-mail to to request hard copies or download them from the USDOL website at 2018 LIST OF GOODS PRODUCED BY CHILD LABOR OR FORCED LABOR .

5 Foreword R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of LABOR W. hen the Department of LABOR 's Bureau The United States should not have to compete with other of International LABOR Affairs (ILAB) began countries that fail to play by the rules, and seek an unfair researching international CHILD LABOR 25 years advantage by turning a blind eye to LABOR abuses. Trade ago, information moved slowly. Policy analysts placed between nations should be fair, and profits should not come phone calls to overseas organizations and waited for from the backs of children or slaves. The cost of CHILD LABOR faxes from foreign governments. This was all to shed and forced LABOR is simply too high for all involved. more light on a problem that mostly existed in the dark, and global estimates on the magnitude of CHILD LABOR did I am proud to release the 17th edition of the annual not yet exist.

6 The result was the first ILAB CHILD LABOR Findings on the Worst Forms of CHILD LABOR , and the 8th report, By the Sweat & Toil of Children, which was mailed edition of the List of GOODS PRODUCED by CHILD LABOR to hundreds of locations across the globe. or Forced LABOR the flagship reports in the series we began publishing 25 years ago. The research in these Today, information moves faster, and the knowledge reports helps shine a light on these conditions overseas, base is broader. Sweat & Toil is now an app, available on and offers concrete actions trading partners can iTunes and Google Play, that aggregates over 1,000 pages take to accelerate efforts to eliminate CHILD LABOR and of CHILD LABOR and forced LABOR research. forced LABOR . While there has been significant progress over the last two decades, including 94 million fewer This is an Age of Acceleration.

7 Technology is changing CHILD laborers estimated today than there were in the way we live and work, and inventors and companies 2000, these reports show us that we need to accelerate are spearheading innovation to improve our lives. Yet, progress toward ending CHILD LABOR , forced LABOR , human a relic of the previous era persists: 152 million CHILD trafficking, and modern slavery. This is vital if we are to laborers and 25 million forced laborers are estimated to make trade fair for all. still sweat and toil worldwide. These adults and children work in hazardous, abusive, or even slave-like conditions. American workers cannot compete with producers And workers have been left to compete on an uneven abroad who use CHILD LABOR or forced LABOR , provide playing field. unsafe working conditions, or do not pay workers what they are legally owed.

8 These reprehensible practices undercut the higher standards we maintain to protect the well-being of our workforce here at home. BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS. Accelerating progress means intensifying efforts on In May of 2018, the Department of Homeland Security's what we are already doing and what we know works. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) used ILAB's That means enforcing trade commitments, strengthening extensive research documenting the use of forced LABOR standards, and removing children from dangerous LABOR in the production of cotton from Turkmenistan in or demeaning work that robs them of their childhoods. making the historic decision to block all GOODS made with This means prosecuting and holding accountable those Turkmen cotton from entering the United States.

9 The individuals who force children to traffic drugs, wage message here is clear: If you are a trading partner that battle as part of armed groups, or perform sex acts. It does not abide by and uphold your commitments to end means permanently shuttering dishonest recruitment CHILD LABOR or forced LABOR , the will do what it takes to agencies and illicit companies that lure workers with false protect vulnerable workers from exploitation, safeguard promises of decent work into abhorrent conditions of American jobs, and create a fair playing field for countries forced LABOR . And as we intensify our efforts, we must also that play by the rules. seek innovations and creative solutions to more effectively address these challenges. Like the rest of the international community, as communicated in the G20 LABOR and Employment At the Department of LABOR and across federal Ministers' Hamburg Declaration, the United States agencies, we are doing our part to accelerate progress on acknowledges that meeting the ambitious goal of ending these issues.

10 Here at home, our Wage and Hour Division CHILD LABOR , forced LABOR , human trafficking, and all forms investigated 750 cases with CHILD LABOR violations last year, of modern slavery requires that we accelerate the very and debarred employers from applying for certification to real progress that has been made over the past quarter- request temporary foreign workers due to frequent abuse century. In this Age of Acceleration, we must keep pace of workers in the H-2A agricultural worker visa program. by forging new partnerships, introducing innovations, and Our Occupational Safety and Health inspectors have also accelerating actions that take us closer to a world free of assessed thousands of dollars in civil penalties for failing to CHILD LABOR and forced LABOR . protect employees from falls and other safety hazards.