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. ...

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.

http://times247.com/articles/wto-seeks-to-scrap-made-in-usa-labels#ixzz1xbBs9dbv

Stores like Wal-Mart simply import junk from overseas. Stuff like tools that are branded Snap-On or MAC are dependable a guaranteed for life rather wrenches than are branded Forged in China. Most things made in the USA mean something. F the WTA

I wouldn't say the only way. I mean you can always look up the manufacturer online.

I'd like it if Nike and the other sweatshop owners had to put pictures and ages of the kids on their products who are pumping out their overpriced junk.

Down with the WTO.

Who do they think they are?

If we want to buy products that are made in the U.S.A. we should not have to do research on every little thing.

We live here, and if we make our products here the WTO can't force us to put "made in the world" on them. Screw them.

You know, I am sick and tired of officials of any sort interfering in our right to know. We have caught city officials leaving out requested documents, homeland security refusing the illegal immigrant lists to check legal voters and now this???

I am sick and tired of having to watch my dogs food, I no longer buy dog treats, they are ALL from china and tainted with pesticides. China poisons us with wheat gluten, polypropylene glycol, lead in Mattel toys paint, poisoned baby formulas, fish "farm raised" in tanks and corn fed, who the heck ever heard of a fish living on corn?? They got corn fields now? Yes "farm raised in tanks" filled with bacteria so they shoot the fish up with antibiotics and it is 3 months old before you even eat it when it is shipped over here. You consume this fish if you ever ate at a Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster) or Joe's Crab shack. Even the heart association recommends you not eat more than 2 servings a month it is so unhealthy. Over it! I have not shopped at a Wal Mart since the 1990's when they put my neighbors hardware store out of business. Sam Walton built Wal Mart on the premise of "Made in the USA", yeah, you see what happened when he died? The Corporate idiots sold out to China! Put Americans out of business. I can find plenty of Made in the USA products as long as they are labeled.

WASHINGTON – While Americans are still recovering from a scandal over poison pet foods imported from China, FDA inspectors report tainted food imports intended for American humans are being rejected with increasing frequency because they are filthy, are contaminated with pesticides and tainted with carcinogens, bacteria and banned drugs.
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Last month, like most months, China topped the list of countries whose products were refused by the FDA – and that list includes many countries, including Mexico and Canada, who export far more food products to the U.S. than China.

Some 257 refusals of Chinese products were recorded in April. By comparison, only 140 were from Mexico and only 23 from Canada.

Refused by the FDA in April because they were “filthy”:

salted bean curd cubes in brine with chili and sesame oil
dried apple
dried peach
dried pear
dried round bean curd
dried mushroom
olives
frozen bay scallops
frozen Pacific cod
sardines
frozen seafood mix
fermented bean curd

Among the foods rejected because they were contaminated with pesticides:

frozen eel
ginseng
frozen red raspberry crumble
mushrooms

Frozen catfish was stopped because it was laced with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines were turned away because they were coated with putrefying bacteria.

Toothbrushes were rejected last month because they were improperly labeled. And last week the FDA found Chinese toothpaste contaminated with a chemical used in antifreeze – the same chemical that killed people in Panama last year when it turned up in cough syrup.

Just three days ago, the U.S. warned consumers not to buy or eat imported fish labeled as monkfish, which actually may be puffer fish, containing a potentially deadly toxin called tetrodotoxin. Two people in the Chicago area became ill after consuming homemade soup containing the fish. One was hospitalized due to severe illness.

The FDA is also on the lookout for vegetable proteins contaminated with melamine – the chemical that killed American cats and dogs when it was imported from China in pet food.

In the past year, the FDA rejected more than twice as many food shipments from China as from all other countries combined.

Most of the time, the reason listed is simply “filthy,” the official term used when inspectors smell decomposition or gross contamination of food.

Officials say FDA inspectors examine only a tiny percentage of the food imported from foreign countries – about 1 percent — meaning most of the contaminated products make it inside the country and to the shelves of retailers.

In the age of globalization, food imports in America are big business and getting bigger. In 2006, they represented $64 billion – a 33 percent increase over 2003. No country is increasing its food exports faster than China – about 20 percent in the last year alone.

China has become America’s leading supplier of apple juice used as a food sweetener, garlic and garlic powder, sausage casings and cocoa butter.

China has also attempted to export hundreds of thousands of pounds of chickens and poultry products to the U.S., even though it is not yet certified to do so. Chinese exporters disguise the meat by labeling crates “dried lily flower” or “prune slices” or “vegetables.”

Despite the deliberate deception, the U.S. government is about to certify the Chinese to export poultry legally.

If you would like to sound off on this issue, participate in today’s WND Poll.

And lets not forget Monsanto who will sue states for labeling food as a GMO product.

Do you have a link to that poll, Ms Sunshine?

Here you go handsome....
http://www.wnd.com/2007/05/41796/

I suppose that means it's time to add a couple embossed labels on the hardware I produce. "**** the WTO, this is 100% American"

http://www.oretek.com/RadScan

Actually, Usa is Japan. U.S.A. is where an American patriot would want their products and services to originate from. I'm not sure how it is in the rest of the world, but I would sure like to see more things made and assembled in America.

CNC Machine, a bit more advanced than the ones I used 20 years ago!

So is the language (In house made), and the ease of manufacturing with a low end cad program. I make my own ashtrays even.

BTW, Ron Paul had something to say about the WTO.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmGcaOkRsTU

I love listening to Ron Paul speak, he gives me a glimmer of hope for this country.

Don't worry, the zombie apocalypse of voters will extinguish that hope. Did you really think the revolution could be intellectual alone? We'll have to fight for every inch of freedom, and for those who survive, each of us that do will value that freedom as much or more than the founding fathers.

A life not worth defending is a life not worth living.

Yes, I saw that Joe, they look great! The bit life on one of those cutting wood must be tremendous!

On the bright side he has opened the eyes of many new and young voters

"Look for the union label" remember the song, years back,.

You mean this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lg4gGk53iY

or this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO7VUklDlQw