President Barack Obama has signed a historic trade bill to ban the importation of products made by children and slaves.
The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, aims to stop the entry of goods like seafood from Thai slave workers, gold mined by children, and clothing sewn by abused Bangladeshi women.
This new law closes an 85-year-old loophole that previously allowed such imports if there was an American demand that couldn’t be met otherwise.
Senator Sherrod Brown, who proposed the amendment, called the loophole an embarrassment and praised the bill for providing a vital tool to fight global slavery.
The change follows a revealing report by …
