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Industrial laws reformed to avert US sanctions

    JOHANNESBURG
    Swaziland's parliament has rushed through a bill to bring its industrial relations laws into line with international norms in an attempt to avert threatened US trade sanctions, news reports said on Wednesday. The bill was passed by parliament late on Tuesday night and signed into law by King Mswati III early Wednesday. Washington said last month it would strike Swaziland off its Generalised System of Trade Preferences (GSP) list and from another, more recent, preferential trade deal for developing countries if it did not reform its industrial relations laws. GSP status allows developing countries to export a range of products to the United States at reduced tariffs.

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