Topics

• Technical Assistance
• Research
• NAALC
• Free Trade Agreements
• HIV/AIDS

Divisions

• Economic & Labor Research
• Trade Policy
• Trade Agreement Administration & Technical Cooperation

The mission of the Office of Trade and Labor Affairs is to implement trade-related labor policy and coordinate international technical cooperation in support of the labor provisions in free trade agreements; to develop and coordinate Department of Labor positions regarding international economic policy issues and to participate in the formulation and implementation of U S. policy on such issues; and to provide services, information, expertise, and technical cooperation programs that effectively support the international responsibilities of the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. foreign labor policy objectives.

• Labor Department Reports for the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement — Per the Trade Act of 2002 [sections 2102(c)(5), 2102(c)(8) and 2102(c)(9)] and subsequent delegations of responsibilities that it creates, ILAB prepares for Congress three reports for every country with which the United States intends to establish a free trade agreement: a U.S. employment impact report, a report on the labor rights situation in our proposed partner country, and a report on laws governing exploitative child labor in the partner. ILAB reports for the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement are now available.
• OTLA plans to award $8 million in grants for work to promote labor law compliance in Central America and the Dominican Republic.