With reference to India's recent notification banning the import of goods made using forced labour, consider the following statements:
- The notification was issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, aligning India's Foreign Trade Policy with the ILO Forced Labour Convention,
- 2. The ban was announced weeks after the US Trade Representative proposed a
- 5% tariff on Indian goods following a Section 301 investigation into inadequate forced-labour enforcement.
- The European Union and Pakistan faced a higher proposed tariff than India under the same Section 301 action, despite introducing similar domestic measures earlier.
- Article 23 of the Indian Constitution, which already prohibits forced labour, was invoked for the first time through this notification to create a trade-law dimension to the prohibition.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Tests the ability to correctly track comparative quantitative details across countries in a trade-policy dispute, rather than assuming a uniform or intuitively "logical" outcome.
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