Business Groups ‘Worried’ About The Effects Of Banning The Importation Of Goods Made With Child Labor
In order to combat the issue, the Senate Finance Committee has included sections in S.1631, the Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009, that would ban the importation of goods made “with convict labor, forced labor, or indentured labor under penal sanctions.” Such a measure by the world’s largest importer would strike a crucial blow against the use of child and slave labor.
Business groups and their lobbyists, however, are not taking kindly to the measures. The D.C.-based business newsletter “Inside U.S. Trade” reports that business groups are “worried” about the effects of such a provision, and they expect to see industry lobbyists and foreign governments profiting from child labor to form an “ad hoc” coalition to oppose it:
Business groups are worried by the potential effects of provisions banning the import of all goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or forced or indentured child labor that were included in a customs bill sponsored by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA)
Business sources say this reporting requirement could cause DHS to more actively seek out imported products made with child labor, forced labor or convict labor. [...]
Sources conceded that this was a sensitive issue because industry groups do not want to be seen as opposing strict measures guarding against human rights abuses. However, one source did expect a push from lobbyists closer to the finance committee mark-up of the bill, and speculated that U.S. industry groups and foreign governments could form ad hoc coalitions to help send a united message.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/12/business-worried-child-labor/
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The turkey has thrown off the lid and jumped out of the pot now baby.
Someone suffers so we can have toys under our trees every year.-
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- Gravity_Man
- 9 days ago
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When it comes to child labor, business groups worry about... finances. *sigh/facepalm*
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- WakeUpPeople
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banning these products only makes a little less profitable to exploit the poor, it doesnt solve the problem of poverty
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Child labor is sad. But even sadder is the family who has to try to live on NOTHING, once the children's jobs are gone.
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- 2helenahandbasket
- 8 days ago
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Surely they would have come up with a happy euphemism for child laborers by now.
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Any system that regards human life and wellbeing as expendable should be abandoned. If we can't even draw the line at slave and child labor, then our society has become a farce.
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actually this goes farther as this legislation is geared toward indentured servitude, forced labor camps for prisoners, and yes even general forced labor, ie slaves. I'm sure they just consider them "corporate volunteers" or maybe "outsourcing interns" or "felon outreach products" but to me its still child labor, slavery, and concentration camp goods. The free market is based on cost cutting, its a race to the bottom when your at the top.
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unless there is an other choice how is this going to help? the values in other countries are vastly different than here. disfiguring a child to make a more pitiful begger is an ancient practice and so is prostitution. many children must be grateful to be able to feed the family, especially if it means they don't have to leave.
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Check out Maddow's rant on child labor endorsing, pro-slavery freaks. // Current http://bit.ly/miPk0
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- unimatrix0
- 8 days ago
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Hence the expression : Child Chewing Monsters !
Exploitation of Children
http://www.globalvillage2006.org/en/find_out_about/child_exploitationwww.ilo.org - International Labour Organisation
www.hrw.org - Human Rights Watch
www.ecpat.net - End Child Exploitation, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes
www.crin.org - Child Rights Information Network
www.unicef.org/voy/voy.html - UNICEF Voices of Youth
www.endchildexploitation.org.uk - UNICEF UK Campaign
www.child-soldiers.org - Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers
www.amnesty.org - Amnesty International
www.savethechildren.org.uk - Save the Children-
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- WhiteNoise
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