East Asia - 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.

Australia

Philippines

Singapore

Taiwan

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.

Fiji	Korea, South	Mongolia	Timor Leste
Hong Kong	Laos	New Zealand	Tonga
Indonesia	Maldives	Palau
Japan	Micronesia	Thailand

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.

Brunei

Malaysia

Solomon Islands

Vietnam

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

Cambodia	Korea, North	Myanmar	Papua New Guinea
China	Macau