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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 52.2

FAR 52.222-18 Certification Regarding Knowledge of Child Labor for Listed End Products.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This provision requires an offeror to certify, before award, how it will handle any listed end product that may have been mined, produced, or manufactured using forced or indentured child labor in a listed country of origin. The Government will not make award unless the offeror checks one of the two certification blocks. It matters because the certification is a condition of award and concerns specific end products identified in the solicitation.

Applies to: Offerors responding to a solicitation that includes listed end products from listed countries of origin

What it requires

  • Check the appropriate block to certify to either paragraph (c)(1) or paragraph (c)(2) of the provision
  • If certifying under (c)(2), make a good faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labor was used to mine, produce, or manufacture the end product
  • If certifying under (c)(2), certify that on the basis of those efforts it is not aware of any such use of child labor

Key terms: Forced or indentured child labor · Listed end products · Country of origin · Certification · Good faith effort

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed in 22.1505(a), insert the following provision:

Certification Regarding Knowledge of Child Labor for Listed End Products (FEB 2021)

(a) Definition.

Forced or indentured child labor means all work or service—

(1) Exacted from any person under the age of 18 under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily; or

(2) Performed by any person under the age of 18 pursuant to a contract the enforcement of which can be accomplished by process or penalties.

(b) Listed end products. The following end product(s) being acquired under this solicitation is (are) included in the List of Products Requiring Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labor, identified by their country of origin. There is a reasonable basis to believe that listed endproducts from the listed countries of origin may have been mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor.

(c) Certification. The Government will not make award to an offeror unless the offeror, by checking the appropriate block, certifies to either paragraph (c)(1) or paragraph (c)(2) of this provision.

□ (1) The offeror will not supply any end product listed in paragraph (b) of this provision that was mined, produced, or manufactured in a corresponding country as listed for that end product.

□ (2) The offeror may supply an end product listed in paragraph (b) of this provision that was mined, produced, or manufactured in the corresponding country as listed for that product. The offeror certifies that it has made a good faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labor was used to mine, produce, or manufacture such end product. On the basis of those efforts, the offeror certifies that it is not aware of any such use of child labor.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 22.1505 Solicitation provision and contract clause.

Sections that refer to it

  • 4.1202 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 22.1505 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications.
  • 52.222-19 Child Labor—Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies.

← 52.222-17 [Reserved] · 52.222-19 Child Labor—Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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