Compliance with U.S. and local laws promoting good business practices, including laws prohibiting illicit payments and ensuring fair competition. Examples of Administration efforts are outlined below. With the encouragement of the White House , industry, labor, consumer, and human rights groups forged the Apparel Industry Partnership. The Partnership is hammering out monitoring and labeling mechanisms to ensure that Industry meets fair labor conditions, including the elimination of child labor in the apparel industry. Interagency Efforts Cabinet agencies cooperate in several key interagency and international fora to support fair labor standards in U.S. trade and to promote respect for other ethical business practices by U.S. firms.
Detailed examples follow.
Preferential Trade Programs. Improving Labor Standards through Multilateral Fora. At the WTO, in December 1996, the United States secured a commitment from all WTO members to the observance of internationally recognized core labor standards. The United States seeks to enhance respect for the rights of workers and the elimination of child and forced labor. The United States looks forward to the adoption of a new ILO convention to ban the most intolerable forms of child labor.