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A 6 page paper discussing alternatives for effecting change in Chinese manufacturing practice. The paper discusses three alternatives: international pressure from the WTO; Congressional import embargoes; and pressure from US retailers selling Chinese-made goods. Pressure from the WTO should be undertaken, but only as a long-term plan for improvement. Because China now is a member of the WTO, the US is prohibited by GATT 1994 Articles XI and XIII from imposing discriminatory prohibitions of Chinese goods into US markets. Consumer boycotts of large companies selling Chinese-made goods, however, is an effective measure that can have the most immediate results. Companies such as Gap, Nike and Toys “R” Us have come under such consumer pressure that they now police the contract manufacturers they use to ensure that the goods that they sell do not originate in Asian sweatshops. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSintlBusSweatBoy.rtf
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Retailing had been an intense but relatively simple business until several decades ago, but it has been growing in its complexity throughout the last half of the 20th century.
Increasing competition has been a primary factor for that increase in complexity, forcing all types of businesses to operate as efficiently as possible. One route to increased efficiency for
apparel and consumer electronics companies, as well as other types of industries, has been to source manufacturing in developing nations, where labor costs are much lower.
This is only a mild point of difficulty in most instances, but labor conditions are very different in China. When standards drop to that which can
be described as "sweatshop" in those nations, then conditions are truly deplorable. The purpose here is to determine whether there is anything that US consumers can do that can
be a positive influence in bringing about change in those conditions. Manufacturing and Trade Environment Until rather recently, unemployment in China was an
unknown condition. Everyone worked for the state; the communist position was that no one individual owned anything at all, therefore no one worked only for themselves. The problem
of this for the government was that communism thwarted any attempts at economic growth, and it became obvious to many in Chinas government that it would not be able to
support its people in the future, even at the marginal subsistence level that they had maintained for a generation under absolute communism. Chairman
Mao was convinced that capitalism is the worlds greatest evil, but Chinese leaders had watched neighboring Singapore rise from one of the worlds poorest countries in 1960 to a prosperous
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