Ivanka Trump’s shop in her father’s tower block in New York (Picture: Drew Angerer/Getty)

The daughter of the American president has been accused of using cheap, low-paid, female workers to make products.

Ivanka Trump has forged a career making fashion items and accessories that are sold in malls across the US.

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However, she is said to be using Asian workers to make hundreds of products that she sells at record returns.

Her company relies on foreign made products, according to research conducted by the Washington Post.


Ms Trump is married to Jared Kushner a close adviser to her father President Trump.

The president’s daughter has come under scrutiny for her role in the White House (Picture: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Her role in the government, in which she promotes the lives of working women, has been lambasted after she took a seat at the G20 meeting because her father was busy.



In a book published this spring she declared improving women’s lives is: ‘My life’s mission’.

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However, Ms Trump has been criticised for allegedly importing millions of pounds of clothes from Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Indonesia.

Concerns have been raised about those countries’ safety rules and low-pay for workers – and the use of their labour force runs contrary to her father’s demand for manufacturers to stop outsourcing to poorer nations.

Ethiopian factory workers earn a third of their Chinese counterparts (Picture: AP Photo/Elias Meseret)

Bangladesh has an average monthly wage of £53 for clothes makers, while Ethiopian workers earn just a third of their Chinese counterparts.

While she is no longer running the company directly, preferring to work in the White House, she still owns it.

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Her role in politics is not an official position, but she has previously claimed to use her influence to stop anti-LGBT legislation being enacted.

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Her team have told Washington Post that Ms Trump is ‘concerned’ with the reports and ‘expects that the company will respond appropriately.’

And a top executive at the brand told them they operate ‘at the highest standards.’

They added there was some plans for American manufacturing but said it ‘currently not possible’.

Metro.co.uk contacted Ms Trump’s brand for comment.

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