Es sah unter anderem das Einfuhrverbot von Produkten vor, die mit Kinderarbeit hergestellt wurden. Daraufhin wurden circa 50.000 Kinder aus den Textilfabriken entlassen.
The following year, after the introduction of the Child Labor Deterrence Act in the United States – the so-called Harkin Bill, which barred US imports of products made with child labor – some 50,000 underage workers were removed from the factory floor.