(3) undertaking efforts set forth in section 
10(a) above. 
(c) INTRA-AGENCY EFFORTS.—In carrying out the 
activities described in this section, the USAID Adminis-
trator, in coordination with the Secretary of State and 
heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, 
shall seek to leverage additional private sector resources 
to end child labor and forced labor in the mining industry 
of the DRC, including artisanal and small-scale mining, 
by increasing cooperation between USAID and such other 
relevant Federal departments and agencies to better lever-
age the full spectrum of grants, technical assistance, and 
partnerships. 
SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Financial Services, and the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
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Urban Affairs and the Committee on Finance 
of the Senate. 
(2) ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING.— 
The term ‘‘artisanal and small-scale mining’’— 
(A) means mining with minimal to no 
mechanization; and 
(B) includes the use of intensive hand 
tools. 
(3) CHILD
LABOR.—The term ‘‘child labor’’ 
means work that deprives children of their child-
hood, their potential, and their dignity, and that is 
harmful to physical and mental development, as such 
term is commonly used by the International Labour 
Organization. 
(4) COVERED DRC GOODS.—The term ‘‘covered 
DRC goods’’ means goods, wares, articles, or mer-
chandise containing metals or minerals, in particular 
cobalt and lithium and their derivatives, mined, pro-
duced, smelted or processed, wholly or in part, by 
child labor or forced labor in the DRC. 
(5) DRC.—The term ‘‘DRC’’ means the Demo-
cratic Republic of the Congo. 
(6) FORCED LABOR.—The term ‘‘forced labor’’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 307 of 
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 
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(7) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
(8) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
(9) PRC.—The term ‘‘PRC’’ means the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China. 
(10) STRATEGIC METALS AND MINERALS.—The 
term ‘‘strategic metals and minerals’’ means metals 
and minerals that— 
(A) are essential to national defense and 
national security, 
(B) are used in weapons systems, or 
(C) are the building blocks for modern 
technologies that are critical to economic pros-
perity for which the United States is dependent 
on imports from foreign countries, 
the supply of which is susceptible to control by for-
eign powers such as the PRC or the Russian Fed-
eration whose interests are inimical to those of the 
United States. 
(11) UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
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(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 
United States; or 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 
United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity. 
Æ 
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