Western Hemisphere - Tier Placements

Adapted from U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2023

Tier 1 - Countries whose governments fully meet the [Trafficking Victims Protection Act] TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

Argentina	Canada	Colombia	USA
The Bahamas	Chile	Guyana

Tier 2 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.

Antigua & Barbuda	Costa Rica	Jamaica	Peru
Barbados	Ecuador	Mexico	St Vincent & Gren
Belize	Guatemala	Panama	Suriname
Brazil	Honduras	Paraguay	Uruguay

Tier 2 Watch List - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards, and for which:

a) the estimated number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing and the country is not taking proportional concrete actions;

b) there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecution, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials.

Bolivia	El Salvador	Haiti	Trinidad & Tobago
Dominican Republic

Tier 3 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.

Cuba

Nicaragua

Venezuela