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When is 'Made in USA' 'NOT Made in USA'?

When it is made by Chinese owned factories, using 100% Chinese materials and parts, by Chinese citizen workers, 800 miles from mainland China on the US Commonwealth island of Saipan and other Northern Mariana Islands.

Per current USA law (as of Jan 2000), can companies getting their products from Saipan still label them "Made in USA"?

Yes! What a scam!

Sweatshops, immigrant workers, sub-minimum wages, stolen passports, beatings, forced abortion & prostitution, rats, barbed wire and armed guards.

Partial Settlement of Saipan $1 Billion Law Suit:
http://www.igc.org/swatch/marianas/settlement.html
Lawsuit:
http://www.igc.org/swatch/marianas/lawsuit.html
Older Saipan News:
http://www.igc.org/swatch/marianas/help.html

Your tax dollars hard at work:
Chinese Seamstresses in Sweatshops Get Cash From Uncle Sam:
The Salt Lake Tribune 10-5-97 http://www.sltrib.com/97/oct/100597/nation_w/539.htm.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT:
Email your reps and senators in congress.
Support new bills to end the "Saipan Scam". One shot email. Other important news.
Take Pride in America Coalition (www.TakePride.org):

"Documentation of an illegal abortion network associated with Saipan 's nearly $1 billion-a-year garment industry poses a potential problem for the industry's backers, who include congressional Republican leaders strongly opposed to abortion. Among them is House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Tex., who visited Saipan on a CNMI -paid trip over New Year's with his wife, daughter and four aides. DeLay lauded the commonwealth's governor and garment industry during the trip as leading lights of "free market success" and said he favors creating a similar "guest-worker program" for Mexicans in the United States, with no minimum wages. " (from TakePride.org)

More "Made in USA" sagas:

Wal-mart, world's largest purchaser of Chinese made products carries baby stroller, box happily labeled "Made In USA" on the front, and inconspicuously on the bottom... "Made In China". Stoller is Peter Rabbit Convenience Stroller, by The Dorel Juvenile Group of Columbus Ohio, Cosco.
- - - (thanks to the US Stuff visitor who emailed the info 3-29-02.

Say NO! to:

The Saipan Scam

and no to baby stroller labeling scams.

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