What changes were instituted with the 2009 TDA report?
• The 2009 report differs from previous versions in a number of ways. First, it provides a sharper focus on the worst forms of child labor, mainly in the first section of the text, which highlights the prevalence and distribution of the problem. In previous reports the Department provided an overview of children’s work in each country that may have included cases that did not clearly constitute the worst forms of child labor. This year, the Department chose to focus exclusively on the worst forms of child labor to realign the report with the mandate in the TDA. • Second, the sections that describe efforts by each government to address the worst forms of child labor differ from those in previous reports. These sections are organized to more closely track the types of efforts that the Congressional TDA Conference Committee report indicated the President should consider when determining whether a country has met its obligations under the GSP and other trade preference programs. The report
