Why do the TVPRA and EO Lists include goods produced in the informal or artisan sector of production?
• In compliance with the scope of the mandates of the Lists, ILAB’s research focused on all economic activity in the production of goods. Economic activity includes all formal and informal sector production of goods, including goods produced just for personal and family consumption. Examples of informal sector activity include casual day-labor hired without contract; small-scale farming and fishing; artisanal mining and quarrying; and manufacturing work performed in home-based workshops. The production of illicit goods is included in these informal economic activities but the appearance of such goods on the Lists is not intended to condone or legitimize these goods or forms of work.
