No New Federal Contracting Restrictions on Carpets Imported From India, DOL Says
The Labor Department will not impose additional certification requirements for federal contractors that supply carpets from India, finding insufficient evidence that carpets from India are being produced by forced or indentured child labor, it said (here). “After a thorough review…
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of the information available and comments received, the Departments [of Labor, State and Homeland Security] have determined that there is not sufficient evidence at this time establishing more than isolated incidents of forced or indentured child labor in the production of carpets in India,” DOL said. “With this final determination, the current [List of Products Requiring Federal Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labor] remains in place.”