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Asean & South Asia; Victims & Winners In Textiles & Clothing Trade After Quota Expiry, Umair Ghori
Asean & South Asia; Victims & Winners In Textiles & Clothing Trade After Quota Expiry, Umair Ghori
Umair H. Ghori
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Wto Nama Negotiations & The Global Textiles & Clothing Trade: Reconciling The Irreconcilable Amid The Financial Meltdown, Umair H. Ghori
Wto Nama Negotiations & The Global Textiles & Clothing Trade: Reconciling The Irreconcilable Amid The Financial Meltdown, Umair H. Ghori
Umair H. Ghori
Textiles & Clothing (T&C) is a sector of world trade that is critical to the sustenance of developing economies. This sector is not only important in terms of export earnings but also in terms of providing employment to millions of people. With the end of quotas on 1 January 2005, this sector was integrated into the GATT/WTO framework. This entailed a process of readjustment for many countries that are overwhelmingly dependent on T&C to sustain economic activities especially those that do not possess comparative advantage in T&C manufacturing and owed the existence of these industries solely on the basis of …
Architectural Digest For International Trade And Labor Law: Regional Free Trade Agreements And Minimum Criteria For Enforceable Social Clauses, Marley S. Weiss
Architectural Digest For International Trade And Labor Law: Regional Free Trade Agreements And Minimum Criteria For Enforceable Social Clauses, Marley S. Weiss
Marley S. Weiss
Until the advent of binding “social clauses” in free trade arrangements, and incorporation of stronger social rights in the European Community treaties, the rapid widening and deepening of international commercial integration proceeded largely separate from international labor rights obligations. Inclusion of a “social clause” in a trade agreement ensures that the parties´ international labor rights commitments have equal dignity and binding force with their trade obligations. The threat of economic sanction for non-observance of labor commitments akin to the penalties for trade rule violations also may provide some “teeth” to induce compliance, unlike the lack of economic sanctions for violation …