Has DOL received any submissions under EO 13126 alleging products made with forced or indentured child labor?
• In 2001, DOL received two submissions alleging the use of forced child labor in China. One was rejected for official review because it failed to provide sufficient evidence to meet the minimum standard of evidence. The other was accepted for official review, but no additions to the EO List were made due to the lack of recent, credible and appropriately corroborated information. • Also in 2001, DOL accepted for review a submission alleging conditions of forced child labor in the cocoa industry in Cte dIvoire. On May 10, 2004, DOL released a Federal Register notice notifying the public of its intent to continue monitoring the production of cocoa in Cote d’Ivoire, as well as requesting information regarding forced child labor in the cocoa industry in Cote d’Ivoire. Based on monitoring and additional information, cocoa from Cote dIvoire has been included as an addition to the EO List in the notice of initial determination published in the Federal Register on September 11, 2009. • In 2007
