Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor · Needs Congress

Include a general prohibition on forced labor in Trade Promotion Authority

Not started

614 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“For future authorizations of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the President should urge Congress to: … Institute a general prohibition on forced labor conditions.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Trade Promotion Authority lapsed in July 2021 and has not been renewed, so no general prohibition on forced labor conditions has been written into one; no bill of the 119th Congress reauthorizes TPA and the President has not urged Congress to do so.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the trade asks (#1692, #1693, #1694, #1695, #1696).
  • Same instrument and same negative as #1695; the two are the two TPA bullets on page 614 and are leveled together.
Action
restrict
Object
Forced labor conditions under Trade Promotion Authority
ID
1696