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US Blocks Import of Goods From Five Nations in Rare Anti-Slavery Crackdown

Reuters

   NEW YORK - The United States has blocked the import of goods suspected
   to have been made with forced labor from five countries, including
   clothing from China and diamonds from Zimbabwe, officials said on
   Tuesday following a rare crackdown on slave labor abroad.

   The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it seized five
   different products this week based on information indicating the goods
   were made using slave labor overseas.

   The other items included rubber gloves made in Malaysia, gold mined in
   the Democratic Republic of the Congo and bone black -- charred animal
   bones -- manufactured in Brazil.

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