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December 17, 2005
Exploitation due to preferential trade
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shares an ugly legacy with American Samoa: its quota-free and duty-free access to the US market resulted in tragedy. Just as in Samoa, Asian laborers were lured to work in the CNMI by entrepreneurs who then abused them. Preferential trade once again encouraged risky immigration that left laborers vulnerable to abuse, a harm that could have been prevented by a policy of non-discriminatory free trade.
Posted by Dingel at December 17, 2005 07:33 PM