Child Labor Deterence Act

1	(b) Purpose.-The purpose of this Act is to curtail

2	the employment of children under age 15 in the production

3	of goods for export by-

4		(1) elimination the role of the Untied States in

5	providing a market for foreign products made by un-

6	derage children.

7		(2) supporting activities and programs to ex-

8	tend primary education, rehabilitation, and alter-

9	native skills training to underage child workers, to

10	improve birth registration, and to improve the scope 

11	and quality of statistical information and research

12	on the commercial exploitation of children in the 

13	workplace and

14	(3) encouraging other nations to join in a ban

15	on trade in products described in paragraph (1) and

16	to support those activities and programs described in

17	paragraph (2).

13	(c) Policy.-It is policy of the United States-

19		(1) to discourage actively the employment of 

20	children under age 15 in the production of goods for 

21	export or domestic consumption.

22		(2) to strengthen and supplement international

23	trading rules with a view to renouncing the use of

24	underage children in production as a means of com-

25	peting in international trade.

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