India has amended its Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) to prohibit the import of goods produced or manufactured using forced labour, a move that aligns its trade rules with international labour standards and could help address concerns raised by the United States in an ongoing trade investigation.
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has issued a notification inserting a new provision into the FTP, 2023, empowering the Central Government to prohibit, through separate notifications, the import of goods found to have been produced wholly or partly using forced labour. The new rules will come into force 30 days after their publication in the Official Gazette.
