Stop importation of child slave labor made carpets

Child slave labor is a huge problem in our current global ecconomy. Children are currently stolen or tricked into slavery, taken from their families and forced to work doing the hard labor of weaving carpets and rugs wich we as Americans and Europeans purchase for our homes.

   I would like to see a end to importation of the products using child slave labor. By signing this petition I am indicating that I will ONLY purchase carpets and rugs with the RUGMARK (http://www.rugmark.org/home.php)  Ethical trade, or FAIRTRADE labels.
   Products with these labels have been inspected and are regulated so that we KNOW for sure they were not made by slaves.

 I want the government to impliment a plan to ban on products coming from countries with high levels of child slavery unless the products can carry a label that will proove that they were not produced with child slave labor. This would need to be a long term goal with steps allong the way, but lets phase out child slavery all together.

   Make it less profitable for slave masters to use slaves and they will need to find other ways to make a living.

   We need to enforce the The Sanders Amendment to the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 wich bans products of forced labor, and the Trade and Development Act of 2000. Its wonderful we have such laws on the books, now we need to enforce them.
International Trade Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20230

We the undersigned are protesting the fact that products of child labor are still being imported into the United States. 
  We need to enforce the The Sanders Amendment to the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 wich bans products of forced labor, and the Trade and Development Act of 2000. Its wonderful we have such laws on the books, now we need to enforce them.

We believe that carpets from India and Nepal should not be imported unless they are labeled by a responsable regulatory trade group such as with the RUGMARK (http://www.rugmark.org/home.php)  Ethical trade, or FAIRTRADE labels.
  These groups go to the location of manufacture and inspect the carpets and their manufacture to insure that they are not produced with child slave labor.


The total number of children involved in the industry in South Asia is very difficult to assess, but in India the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude estimates that between 200,000 and 300,000 children are involved, most of them in the carpet belt of Uttar Pradesh in central India.


Similar numbers may be working in Pakistan and up to 150,000 in Nepal.

  We thank you for the steps you have already taken towards ending this practice and ask that you only continue to strive to eliminate child slavery importation, wich will effectively cut off the revenue stream and make the practice non profitable.

   We understand that this will not happen overnight, but if you implement a timeline of eradication in the market we believe that you can phase out child slavery imports within the next 10 years.

   This is a very reasonable goal, and we hope that you agree it needs to be done.

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