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Santa's Sweatshop: Made in D.C. with Bad Trade Policy

"Although China and inadequate U.S. safety systems are often blamed, U.S. toy corporations decisions to shift production to countries without adequate safety systems and trade policies companies pushed through Congress that limit import safety standards and inspection are the root causes of the imported toy safety crisis, according to a report released today by Public Citizen. Improving toy safety will require changes to trade policy as well as U.S. product safety policies, the report concludes."Our children's safety has been the price for soaring profits and CEO pay of major U.S. toy companies that have chosen to relocate their production to venues in which they cannot ensure the safety of their products," said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division, which produced the report. "The main villains in this unhappy holiday story are the CEOs of major U.S. toy and retail companies who spent millions lobbying to lock in race-to-the-bottom offshore production strategies with trade ag

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