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Ref : EIC 111/1/5/1

2 October 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 791/2013

US : Notice of Updates to the List of Goods Produced by Child Labour or Forced Labour

The United States Department of Labour published in the Federal Register (FR) of 1 October 2013 a notice updating the "List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor" ("List"), produced in accordance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005. The FR notice is available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-10-01/pdf/2013-23223.pdf.

DETAILS

2. The updates remove three items from the List, namely tobacco from Kazakhstan, charcoal from Namibia, and diamonds from Zimbabwe. With the updates, the List includes 134 goods from 73 countries, and total of 342 line items.

ENQUIRIES

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

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Linda Ng)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry