S.1353: Socially Responsible Consumers' Choice and Anti-Child Labor Act

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Socially Responsible Consumers' Choice and Anti-Child Labor Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to eliminate the consumptive demand exception with respect to the prohibition on the importation of goods manufactured by forced labor or indentured labor. (The consumptive demand exception allows importation of such prohibited goods if similar goods are not sufficiently produced in the United States to meet U.S. consumer demand.) Directs the...

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Aug. 3, 2001

Introduced in the Senate by Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

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