may receive United States assistance if the President de-
termines and certifies to the Congress that it is in the
vital national interest of the United States to provide such
assistance to such country or industry, as the case may
be. The President shall include in any such certification—
(1) a full and complete description of the vital
national interest of the United States that is placed
at risk if such assistance is not provided to such
country or industry; and
(2) a statement weighing the risk described in
paragraph (1) against the risk posed to the vital na-
tional interest of the United States by the failure of
such country to adopt or enforce laws prohibiting
child labor or by the use of child labor by such in-
dustry, as the case may be.
SEC. 6. PENALTIES.
(a) UNLAWFUL ACTS.—It is unlawful—
(1) to attempt to enter any manufactured arti-
cle that is a product of an industry if the entry is
prohibited under section 4(a); or
(2) to violate any regulation prescribed under
section 7.
(b) CIVIL PENALTY.—Any person who commits any
unlawful act set forth in subsection (a) is liable for a civil
penalty of not to exceed $25,000.
(c) CRIMINAL PENALTY.—In addition to being liable
for a civil penalty under subsection (b), any person who
intentionally commits any unlawful act set forth in sub-
section (a) is, upon conviction, liable for a fine of not less
than $10,000 and not more than $35,000, or imprison-
ment for not more than 1 year, or both.
(d) CONSTRUCTION.—The violations set forth in sub-
section (a) shall be treated as violations of the customs
laws for purposes of applying the enforcement provisions
of the Tariff Act of 1930, including—
(1) the search, seizure, and forfeiture provi-
sions;
(2) section 592 (relating to penalties for entry
by fraud, gross negligence, or negligence); and
(3) section 619 (relating to compensation to in-
formers).
SEC. 7. REGULATIONS.
The President shall issue such regulations as are nec-
essary to carry out this Act.
SEC. 8. UNITED STATES SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPMENTAL
ALTERNATIVES 
FOR 
UNDERAGE 
CHILD
WORKERS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Presi-
dent the sum of $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997
through 2001 for a United States contribution to the
International Labor Organization for the activities of the
International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor.
SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Act:
(1) CHILD
LABOR.—The term ‘‘child labor’’
means—
(A) services performed by an individual
who has not attained the age at which children
complete compulsory schooling under the na-
tional laws of the country concerned, or the age
of 15, whichever age is older, except for services
performed on a part-time basis by an individual
14 years of age or older that does not interfere
with the individual’s health or education, and
(B) services performed by an individual
under the age of 18 that would likely jeopardize
the health, safety, or moral character of a
young person,
in exchange for remuneration (regardless to whom
paid), subsistence, goods or services, or any com-
bination thereof, or under circumstances tantamount
to involuntary servitude.
(2) PRODUCT OF CHILD LABOR.—A manufac-
tured article shall be treated as being a product of
child labor if the article—
(A) was fabricated, assembled, or proc-
essed, in whole or part,
(B) contains any part that was fabricated,
assembled, or processed, in whole or in part, or
(C) was mined, quarried, pumped, or oth-
erwise extracted,
with child labor.
(3) ENTERED
AND
ENTRY.—The terms ‘‘en-
tered’’ and ‘‘entry’’ mean entry, or withdrawal from
warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory
of the United States.
(4) BUSINESS
ENTITY.—The term ‘‘business
entity’’—
(A) means any entity that produces a man-
ufactured article in a foreign country; and
(B) includes, but is not limited to, entities
owned or controlled in whole or in part by the
government of a foreign country.
(5) FOREIGN
COUNTRY.—The term ‘‘foreign
country’’ means any foreign country and any posses-
sion or territory of a foreign country that is admin-
istered separately for customs purposes (and in-
cludes any designated zone within such country, pos-
session, or territory).
(6) 
INTERNATIONAL
FINANCIAL
INSTITU-
TION.—The term ‘‘international financial institu-
tion’’ means the International Bank for Reconstruc-
tion and Development, the International Develop-
ment Association, the Multilateral Investment Guar-
antee Agency, the Inter-American Development
Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African De-
velopment Bank, the African Development Fund, the
International Monetary Fund, the European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development, and the Inter-
national Finance Corporation.
(7) 
MANUFACTURED
ARTICLE.—The 
term
‘‘manufactured article’’ means any good that is fab-
ricated, assembled, or processed. The term also in-
cludes any mineral resource (including any mineral
fuel) that is entered in a crude state. Any mineral
resource that at entry has been subjected to only
washing, crushing, grinding, powdering, levigation,
sifting, screening, or concentration by flotation,
magnetic separation, or other mechanical or physical
processes shall be treated as having been processed
for the purposes of this Act.
(8) UNITED
STATES
ASSISTANCE.—The term
‘‘United States assistance’’ means—
(A) any assistance under the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 (including programs under
title IV of chapter 2 of part I of such Act, re-
lating to the Overseas Private Investment Cor-
poration), other than—
(i) disaster relief assistance, including
any assistance under chapter 9 of part I of
such Act;
(ii) assistance which involves the pro-
vision of food (including monetization of
food) or medicine; and
(iii) assistance for refugees;
(B) sales, or financing on any terms, under
the Arms Export Control Act;
(C) the provision of agricultural commod-
ities, other than food, under the Agricultural
Trade Development and Assistance Act of
1954; and
(D) financing under the Export-Import
Bank Act of 1945.
(9) UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE TO A FOREIGN
COUNTRY.—The term ‘‘United States assistance to a
foreign country’’ includes any sales, financing, or
other assistance described in subsection (8) to or for
programs, projects, business ventures, or other ac-