 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Toyota Motor buys pig iron from firm using slaves.(Business Report Weekend)
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BYLINE: Michael Smith and David Voreacos
New York - Toyota Motor's trading company bought pig iron, a key steel making ingredient, from a firm that used charcoal made by Brazilian slaves, said government reports.
Toyota Tsusho's US unit bought at least seven shipments of pig iron from Usina Siderurgica de Maraba (Usimar) last year, US Customs records showed. Usimar purchased charcoal from a camp where Brazilian inspectors in May found 22 people, including three children, who were not being paid for their work. They were living in squalid shacks without electricity and ...
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