Some of the US's biggest 'trading partners' thanks to the WTO and the fraudulently named "free tradeHere is a list of the US's major trading partners, as provided by the Heritage Foundation -
Canada 23.2%
Mexico 13.5%
Japan 6.6%
UK 4.4%
China 4.2%
Germany 3.8%
Note no India, Burma, Vietnam or Dominician Republic. And again, you're confusing low wages with slavery.
Of course, you protectionist nuts will even say you can't compete with Canada. Pat Buchanan said so in his "Family Farm Bill of Rights" speech when he got worked up about cheap Canadian food. So we'll treat your statement about slavery as what it is - a red herring, and a lame excuse.
Ivan
And again, you're confusing low wages with slavery.
No, I'm not.
SLAVE LABOR ALLEGED ON BRAZILIAN RANCHES Beef from rain forest areas of Brazil that have been cleared by slave labor has a fair chance of turning up in United Kingdom’s catering outlets and discount stores, according to the U.K.’s National Beef Association.
Myanmar Back on U.N. Agenda But diplomats said the United States and Britain argued in the closed-door meeting that conditions within the country destabilized the region, as refugees, drugs and slave labor flowed across its borders
US to give more teeth to human trafficking laws Topping the US State Department human trafficking blacklist are Ecuador, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Cambodia, Kuwait, Cuba and North Korea.
Among nations in the second tier of a "watch list" are Mexico, South Africa, Bahrain, the Philippines, Russia, India, Zimbabwe and China.
We want to get everyone thinking protection, prosecution and prevention -- all of these are mutually reinforcing obviously but the more we do that, I think
the better we stop this modern day slavery," Republican legislator Chris Smith, the author of the bill