Guatemala Labor Rights Progress Insufficient, Says USTR
The Guatemalan government must quickly pass legislation that ensures employer accountability for labor rights violations and a contingency mechanism for workers that lose wages in export enterprises that close, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said on Oct.…
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25 (here). Should Guatemala fail to pass such legislation, the U.S. may reactivate an arbitration panel established in a 2011 labor enforcement case brought under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), the USTR said. The U.S. imports $3.1 billion in goods from Guatemala and exports $3.9 billion in goods annually, according to USTR statistics (here).