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The following year, after the introduction of the Child Labor Deterrence Act in the United States – the so-called Harkin Bill, which barred US imports of
products
made with child labor – some 50,000 underage workers were removed from the factory floor.
The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany’s labor-intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.
Moreover, trade in agricultural
products
will benefit US exporters more than Central American farmers.
At the same time, the agreement eliminates most import tariffs for commodities like rice, yellow corn, or dairy
products.
In the old days, most companies sold
products
and had specified spokespeople; more recently, many have added call centers, creating about 3.5 million jobs in the United States alone, and many more outside it.
People inside companies are paid to provide a certain level of customer service on the assumption that they will help to sell products, instruct users how to benefit from them, and improve customer satisfaction.
The economist Tyler Cowen has suggested that developing countries may benefit from the trickle-down of innovation from the advanced economies: they can consume a stream of new
products
at cheap prices.
But the question remains: What will these countries produce and export – besides primary
products
– to be able to afford the imported cellphones?
Financial
products
like weather derivatives – which insure the harvests and enterprises of SMEs and some of the world’s poorest people – also have potential.
True, many
products
manufactured in the United States depend on imports of intermediate goods from China.
Greece exports refined petroleum products, olive oil, raw cotton, and dried fruit.
Innovative firms face the uphill challenge of developing entire new
products
and selling them in geographically and economically distant markets.
Particularly valuable would be straightening out the spaghetti bowl of “rules of origin” – the regulations dictating when inputs produced in other countries can be used in
products
that will qualify for free-trade benefits.
The nuclear reactions that drive reactors and weapons are the same, as are the radioactive
products
that are dispersed by wind, rain, and water if released, with the same lack of respect for borders and the same indiscriminate long-term cancer and genetic hazards.
As it stands, tariff barriers are not particularly high: the weighted mean tariff for all US and EU
products
is just 1.6%.
Nevertheless, the fears, and especially the prospect of a new and lucrative market, set pharmaceutical firms scrambling to develop Ebola-related products, while health officials lamented that nothing had been done beforehand.
If we want them to make
products
that will help the poor in developing countries, we need to find ways of giving them – and their shareholders – a return on their investment.
Whereas pharmaceutical companies lack incentives to aid the poor in developing countries, they have strong incentives to develop
products
for people in affluent countries.
Because the overwhelming majority of medical and pharmaceutical research is directed toward
products
that affect people in affluent countries, it targets only part of the global burden of disease.
If the Health Impact Fund could be adequately financed, it would provide incentives to develop
products
in proportion to their impact in reducing the global burden of disease.
But pharmaceutical companies would have been considering such
products
– as well as other treatments to save lives or improve health anywhere in the world, regardless of people’s ability to pay.
A company that develops a product would earn a share of reward money based on its share of the health improvements achieved by all the
products
competing for the available funds.
Like certain products, buying from a country can also be habit-forming.
But let’s assume that Trump is right – that China is still selling its
products
to US consumers at a loss.
But a crucial element of “innovation” is often absent from these discussions: the final
products.
Innovative
products
are, after all, what makes life healthier, more efficient, and more fun.
But if DuPont needed capital to produce a new chemical in an existing plant, it couldn’t get a loan, because banks don’t know how to assess the risks of innovative
products
(in the chemical industry or any other).
One idea is debt-based funds offering bonds with more predictable returns based on revenue from new
products.
Furthermore, EU export subsidies for agricultural
products
will be abolished from 2013.
China, for example, seeks markets for its
products
and further energy resources, while Russia aims to use the SCO to promote its anti-Western agenda.
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