Legislation passed by Congress final week closes loophole and bars all imports of products that exercise forced or indentured labor Barack Obama is set to sign a law that would ban all US imports of fish caught by slave labor in south-east Asia,closing a loophole that has allowed seafood from forced labor to enter the country for decades.
Legislation passed by Congress final week would bar all imports of products that exercise convict, forced or indentured labor. The bill, or which the president will ratify,ends an exemption in the US Tariff Act of 1930 that allows goods made by slaves to be imported if consumer demand cannot be met without them.
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Source: theguardian.com