Laogai hide their products through export companies. The chinese are very good at circumventing trade rules, they often reroute their goods through Thailand and Viet Nam when import limits are reached.
The information posted does say in 1998 60% of the tea exports were produced by Laogai.
I always wonder when people complain too much information is posted. Would you really rather find out for yourself, than have someone tell you? Since this is an important piece of information, you could yourself go find it out and post to the board.
I always wonder when people respond to a simple question with pages and pages of data. I think their minds get entranced by quantities of free-association.
Pick one Fortune 500 company. Tell me what part of their profits are from slave labor. You may THINK some of them are; how much do you KNOW?
I will vote with you today to outlaw American companies using slave labor. Which ones are doing it, and how much money is involved?
Truth is, this whole outsourcing argument is not about slave labor. I'm sure some exists. But the argument is about cheap labor. The whole slave labor thing gets thrown in to create moral drama.