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Daily News Record, November, 1991 by Farnsworth, Steve
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The Chinese Government has agreed in principle to undertake prompt investigations of exported goods suspected to being made by prison labor and to furnish their findings to the U.S., a State Department official said Monday.
The agreement, the result of weekend meetings between Secretary of State James Baker and top communist Chinese officials, comes in the wake of widespread U.S. Government suspicions that some apparel and other products are made by forced labor in China and then shipped to the U.S.
The new agreement also provides a mechanism for meetings with officials and experts on both sides to consider such allegations, according to the State Department.
U.S. law prohibits the importation of goods made by forced...
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