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Are you ready for 'Made in the World'? Country-of-origin labels being
targeted by World Trade Organization Published: 06/05/2012 *by* Roger
Simmermaker <http://www.wnd.com/author/roger/> /WND
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The World Trade Organization is moving closer to eliminating
country-of-origin labels and replacing them with “Made in the World”
initiative labels because they say we need to “reduce public opposition to
free trade” and “re-engineer global governance.”
An America that prides itself on independence and celebrates that
independence every year on July 4 should want absolutely no part in
allowing the advancement of global governance that aims to eliminate the
one thing that allows American consumers to know from where the products
they buy originate: The “Made in USA” label.
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To be sure, the “Made in USA” label alone does not tell the entire story
where all the jobs are located for every product that is made, since it
does not include where jobs such as engineering, research and development,
design, testing, administration, advertising, marketing, etc. are located.
It also doesn’t indicate who owns the company making a given product, which
would reveal where the profits go, where the taxes are paid, and, a good
indication of which country has many of the jobs types listed in the
previous sentence.
But the answer to the incompleteness of what the current “Made in USA”
label *does* reveal is not to scrap country-of-origin labels like the
“guided-by-global-governance”
World Trade Organization wants to do altogether, but rather to keep and
strengthen our current country-or-origin labels and supplement them with
even more information.
For example, it was not until vehicles were required to display the
percentage of domestic content, as well as where the engine and
transmission come from (largely due to the efforts of the Made in USA
Foundation) that consumers became armed with more information so that they
could make more-informed purchasing decisions when buying a new automobile.
As the saying goes, information is power, and at a time of increased
globalization when an increased number of products are imported to America
from countries few of us would consider friends or allies, Americans should
be able to steer the global economy in a direction that best benefits
America with the consumer power that would come with more information on
product labels – not less.
The World Trade Organization apparently sees a problem with the widely held
American view that we are far too immersed in imports as a country these
days. Yes, the WTO says there is a problem with the nationalistic view that
“I must try to reduce my imports and increase my exports” even when our record
trade deficits continue to impede economic growth, kill American jobs, and
slow the economic recovery.
Furthermore, WTO Deputy Director General Alejandro Jara sees a problem with
the American outlook that says, “It is wrong to think uni-dimensionally of
imports sucking jobs out of the economy and exports creating them.”
At a time when Republicans and Democrats agree on very little, a large
number of members from both political parties – and an even larger number
of independents – agree that Ross Perot was right when he predicted a
“large sucking sound” of American jobs to Mexico would occur if and when
the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed.
The WTO wants to replace country-of-origin labels with a World Input-Output
Database – an initiative that is being funded by the European Union’s
“Seventh Framework” program. Americans should be concerned and seriously
question the involvement of the European Union in watering down or wiping
out the “Made in USA” label.
There is a smorgasbord of non-American entities involved in a
global-governance strategy that over-reaches and intrudes in our treasured
right to know which products are “made in USA” and which ones are not.
These non-American entities include the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development, France; the Institute of Communication and
Computer Systems, Greece; the Conference Board Europe, Belgium; the
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Spain; and the University
of Groningen, Netherlands.
Thankfully, there are ways to fight back. The Buy American
Project<http://www.buyamericanproject.org/>and the Made
in USA Foundation <http://www.madeusafdn.org/> are two non-profits created
to support the American right to buy American so there will always be
American left to buy. So let’s defend our cherished right to know where the
products we buy come from, and therefore save and build upon the American
jobs that accompany good and well-informed buying decisions.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/are-you-ready-for-made-in-the-world/
Note:* Roger Simmermaker is the author of **"How Americans Can Buy
American: The Power of Consumer
Patriotism."*<http://superstore.wnd.com/s.nl/c.811217/id.282/.f>
* He also writes "Buy American Mention of the Week" articles for his **
website,* <http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/>* and is a member of the
Machinists Union and National Writers Union. Roger has been a frequent
guest on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC and has been quoted in the USA Today, Wall
Street Journal and US News & World Report, among many other publications*.Less
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