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Commercial Information Circulars

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Ref : EIC 111/1/5/1

21 September 2010

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 427/2010

US : Final Determination updating the List of Products requiring Federal Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labour pursuant to Executive Order 13126

The US Department of Labour (DoL) has issued a final determination updating the "List of Products requiring Federal Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labour" (the List) pursuant to Executive Order 13126 "Prohibition of Acquisition of Products produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labour" (EO 13126). The updated list and the implementation details of EO 13126 are available at: http://www.dol.gov/ilab/regs/eo13126/main.htm. 

DETAILS

  1. The trade was informed via Commercial Information Circular No. 487/2009 of 29 September 2009 of the proposed updating to the List. In accordance with the published procedural guidelines for maintenance of the List, and based on recent, credible, and appropriately corroborated information from various sources, the US DoL, the US Department of State, and the US Department of Homeland Security have concluded that there is a reasonable basis to believe that 29 products from 21 countries might have been mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labour and published an updated List. It is noted that a number of products from the Mainland of China are added to the List, including bricks, cotton, electronics and toys. 
     

  2. Pursuant to the publication of this updated List and the final rule by the US Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, published on 18 January 2001, which also implements EO 13126, Federal contractors, who supply products on this List under procurement by the US Government, are required to certify, among other things, that they have made a good faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labour was used to produce the item. 

ENQUIRIES

  1. For enquiries concerning this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5682.

Yours faithfully,




(Miss Carmen CHAN)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry