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Article: New Trade Group Sets Talks on Labor Rights ; Developing Nations Agree to Discuss Issue
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- April 8, 1994
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Representatives of the developing world agreed yesterday to put
the divisive issue of labor rights on the agenda of the new World
Trade Organization, the powerful new international body that is
intended to regulate global commerce beginning next year.
U.S. officials acknowledged that the agreement, reached in
Geneva, is only a first step toward resolving a decades-old schism
between the industrial nations and developing countries over labor
standards.
Leaders of developing nations remain fearful that a campaign to
expand labor rights could create a back-door means of barring their
low-wage products from the consumer markets of rich nations.
While negotiators for Brazil, Malaysia, ...