H.R. 10346
Stop China’s Exploitation of Congolese Children and Adult Forced Labor through Cobalt Mining Act
Sponsor: Christopher H. Smith · 0 cosponsors
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Stop China’s Exploitation of Congolese Children and Adult Forced Labor through Cobalt Mining Act
This bill requires the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to complete and submit to Congress the results of an investigation into the alleged use of forced labor in the cobalt mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Specifically, the task force must (1) submit to Congress strategies for preventing the importation of cobalt mined using forced labor, and (2) provide semiannual briefings to Congress.
This requirement ceases to have effect on the earlier of (1) eight years after the date of enactment, or (2) the date on which the President submits to Congress a determination that forced labor in the DRC mining industry has ended.
Text of the bill
In this Act:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees. The term appropriate congressional committees means—
(A) the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Finance of the Senate.
(2) Artisanal and small-scale mining. The term artisanal and small-scale mining—
(A) means mining with minimal to no mechanization; and
(B) includes the use of intensive hand tools.
(3) DRC. The term DRC means the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(4) Forced labor. The term forced labor has the meaning given that term in section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307).