PNTR in Depth
Visit these sites for firsthand accounts of China's extensive human and labor rights abuses, as well as an economic analysis of the U.S.-China trade impact on American jobs.
Made in China: The
role of U.S. companies in denying human rights
The National Labor
Committee made two trips to China, in July 1999 and again in
January 2000. Their investigations of 16 factories in China producing car
stereos, bikes, shoes, sneakers, clothing, TVs, hats and bags for some of
the largest U.S. companies clearly demonstrate that Wal-Mart, Nike,
Huffy and others in China systematically violate the most fundamental
human and worker rights and pay below subsistence wages.
www.nlcnet.org
China and the
States: Booming trade deficit with China will accelerate job destruction
in the next decade with losses in every state
This new
report (May 16, 2000) from the Economic Policy Institute shows how passage of PNTR
for China will forfeit all congressional control over the U.S.-China trade
deficit, which could eliminate over 870,000 U.S. jobs in a decade.
www.epinet.org
1999 Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices: China by U.S. Department of State
On February 25,
2000, the U.S. Department of State released an extensive report
documenting China's widespread human rights abuses - from extrajudicial
killings, torture, denial of due process and tightened restrictions on
freedom of speech, the press, assembly and religion, to violence against
women, trafficking in women and children, child abuse, restricted worker
rights and forced child and prison labor. Read our own government's report on the atrocities taking
place in today's China.
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/china.html
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