Linking US Trade Benefits to Global Women's Rights and Worker Protections.
This law ties US trade benefits (duty-free imports) for developing countries to strict requirements regarding gender equality and worker rights. Partner countries must now substantially afford equal rights to women concerning employment, finance, property, and legal protection, or risk losing preferential trade status. The goal is to use trade policy to promote better economic opportunities and legal safeguards for women globally.
Key points
New eligibility criteria for trade benefits require partner countries to guarantee equal rights and legal protection regardless of gender, covering employment, finance, assets, and access to courts.
Countries that fail to meet gender equality and worker protection standards for five consecutive years face reductions in their duty-free export privileges to the US.
The US government must annually review and publicly report on how partner countries comply with these new human rights and gender equality standards.
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