The U.S. government is reportedly set to remove Thailand from a blacklist of countries that fail to tackle human trafficking. If true, the move would sound a rare positive note in recent relations between the two countries, which cooled after the Thai military seized power in a bloodless coup in May 2014. That year, the State Department downgraded Thailand in its annual Trafficking in Persons report, amid revelations of rampant human trafficking and forced labor in the country’s multi-billion-dollar fishing and seafood-processing industries, which are staffed mainly by migrants from Burma and Cambodia and supply major U.S.