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BLA Makes Three Additions to Child Labor Certification List

The Bureau of International Labor Affairs added three items to the List of Products Requiring Federal Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labor Under 48 CFR Subpart 22.15 and E.O. 13126,in a Federal Register notice. The additions are bricks from Afghanistan, and Cassiterite and Coltan from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Departments of Labor, State and Homeland Security believe they might have been mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor, the notice said.

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Contractors who supply products that appear on the list are required to certify they have made a good faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labor was used to mine, produce, or manufacture them. The list change is effective immediately.