The United States Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs has ratified Executive Order 13126 – Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor Act of 1999, which includes a ban on diamonds produced by forces labor.

According to the government statement, the executive order "is intended to ensure that federal agencies enforce laws relating to forced or indentured child labor in the procurement process. It requires the Department of Labor, in consultation with the Departments of State and Homeland Security, to publish and maintain a list of products, by country of origin, which the three Departments have a reasonable basis to believe, might have been mined, produced or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor."

The procurement regulations require that all federal contractors who supply products on a list published by the Department of Labor, "Must certify that they have made a good faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labor was used to produce the items listed."

The list of goods includes diamonds mined in Sierra Leone and gold minded in Burkina Faso, for which those in the diamond and jewelry industry must look out for.