Following a letter from U.S. senators regarding blocking cocoa imports due to child labor concerns, a team from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is visiting the Ivory Coast to investigate cocoa production. Banning Ivory Coast cocoa from the United States would have drastic consequences for chocolate companies. For this reason, the U.S. is investigating labor abuse allegations prior to implementing a ban. Ivory Coast should have eliminated child labor from supply chains by 2005, although some progress has been made, it is doubtful that child labor has truly been eliminated.
See "Doubts about chocolate: U.S. officials investigate whether to block critical cocoa imports", Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post, October 30, 2019