''Labour advocates have long complained that international trade
agreements are driven by corporate agendas and pay little attention to
the interests of working people. The preamble of
the World Trade Organization Agreement mentions the objective of “full
employment,” but otherwise labour standards remain outside the scope of
the multilateral trade regime. The only exception is a clause, left over
from the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the precursor to
the WTO), which permits governments to restrict imports that are
produced with prison labour..''
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