Anti-slavery Projects: Commonwealth

Lord Randall of Uxbridge Excerpts

Thursday 4th March 2021 Grand Committee

[Lord Randall of Uxbridge (Con) [V]]

My Lords, I declare an interest as the deputy chairman of the Human Trafficking Foundation. In this extremely short contribution, I will simply make a practical suggestion regarding modern slavery in supply chains—something we should be clamping down on. My noble friend should look into what the US has done to try to remedy this in respect of what it calls “hot goods”, that is to say goods that are produced by forced labour. They have the following clause in their legislation:

“All goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited”.


This seems a very useful idea, and perhaps something that we could still insert in the Trade Bill.