03.18.2016

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The week of Feb. 22, the federal government took a significant step in the fight against forced (that is, slave, trafficked, child, and indentured) labor. President Barack Obama signed into law the ‘‘Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.” As explained in this BNA-Bloomberg article, this enactment, which takes effect March 10, 2016, critically closes a loophole by amending the Tariff Act of 1930 (Tariff Act) to remove the long-standing ‘‘immunity’’ for broad classes of goods made with forced and prison labor.