The Department of Labour's List of Goods Produced by Child Labour or Forced Labour Report Required by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Acts of 2005 and 2008

This publication presents the Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs’ implementation report and initial List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor (List) pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Acts (TVPRA) of 2005 and 2008.1 The TVPRA called on ILAB to carry out additional activities to monitor and combat child labor and forced labor in foreign countries. This report provides an update on ILAB’s activities, including monitoring, coordination and informationsharing with various public and private stakeholders on the issues of child labor and forced labor in the production of goods. One of the TVPRA mandates was to develop and publish a list of goods from countries that ILAB “has reason to believe are produced with child labor or forced labor in violation of international standards.” Pursuant to this mandate, ILAB conducted an indepth review of available information on exploitive working conditions in the production of goods in 77 countries, based on an initial screening of sources that showed these countries to have a higher incidence of child labor and forced labor. In evaluating the information, multiple criteria (including the nature of information, source of information, date of information, extent of corroboration, and significant incidence) were used to determine whether a good should be placed on the List. ILAB ultimately identified 122 goods produced with forced labor, child labor, or both, in 58 countries. The countries on the List span every region of the world and are at different stages of development. More goods were found to be made with child labor than forced labor. By sector, agricultural crops comprise the largest category, followed by manufactured goods and mined or quarried goods. The most common goods listed are cotton, sugarcane, tobacco, coffee, rice, and cocoa in agriculture; bricks, garments, carpets, and footwear in manufacturing; and gold and coal in mined or quarried goods. The primary purposes of the List are to raise public awareness about the incidence of child labor and forced labor in the production of goods in the countries listed and to promote efforts to eliminate such practices.