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result, a U.S. trade deficit with China that breaks records year after year, an increasing loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China. In my State alone, in Ohio, 42,000 jobs have been lost to China since the year 2001. Much of that job loss has been as a result of China's unfair trade practices. Yet
America's trade agreements are actually encouraging the development of new sweatshops....
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sweatshop labor overseas. We define what sweatshop labor is, what sweatshop conditions are. We establish a provision by the
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The bill is simple. It bars the importation or the sale of goods made with sweatshop labor. In other words, if a product is made in a
Chinese sweatshop, if a product is made by child labor or slave labor or prison labor, you can't import it into the United States, you can't sell it into the United
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Chinese and Bangladeshis, with Chinese textiles, being put in sweatshops in northern Jordan to produce products to ship into this country. Some were working 40-hour shifts, not a 40-hour week, 40 hours at a time. Some
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China is the world's sweatshop leader, with repressive labor policies resulting in wage suppression of as much as 85 percent. We all know that
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We cannot afford to continue to turn a blind eye to these abuses. Sweatshop imports are a moral crime. They violate the values of our families, of our faith and of the history of this country. They are a moral crime against the working men and women, and, I am afraid, working children of the
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