Inside Trade

December 9, 2024

Lange: Forced-labor strategy must be global, not country-specific

By Margaret Spiegelman  / January 28, 2022 at 4:33 PM
Efforts to combat forced labor should seek to address the issue globally, not just in certain countries, Bernd Lange, chair of the Committee on International Trade at the European Parliament, said on Friday, expressing skepticism about a new U.S. law that singles out China amid trans-Atlantic efforts to seek common ground on how to improve worker conditions around the world. “We have to do more than we did in the past, but it should … not go in the direction...

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