International Law
Aug. 29, 2023
A nearly 100-year-old tariff law is being used to fight child labor in the chocolate industry
International Rights Advocates recently filed a complaint with the United States Court of International Trade to force the Biden Administration to halt the importation of Ivorian cocoa beans due to child labor violations, under section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
Paul L. Hoffman
Director
Civil Rights Litigation Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law
11543 W. Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles , CA 90064
Phone: (310) 396-0731
Fax: (310) 399-7040
Email: hoffpaul@aol.com
New York University SOL; New York NY
Much of the chocolate consumed in the United States is derived from cocoa beans produced by children subjected to forced labor in West Africa, in particular, the Ivory Coast. Thousands of children labor on unregulated plantations in the Ivory Coast and the cocoa beans they harvest become part of the chocolate supply chain. The exact percentage of such forced labor produced cocoa beans is subject to debate and difficult to identify precisely, but the continuing existe...
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