So my niece may never go shopping with me again

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145. Sweatshops in the Marianas use Made In USA

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Northern Mariana Islands, a Pacific archipelago located about three quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Phillipines were acquired by the United States from Japan following WW2. Saipan, the largest of the islands, serves as capital of the Commonwealth and the center of its one-time $2 billion garment industry. Among the privileges reserved to the commonwealth were the right to set its own immigration policy, exemption from labor and workplace safety regulations, exemptions from tariffs and quotas, and the right to label as "made in the U.S.A."

Once upon a time, Tom Delay once referred to Saipan as "a perfect petri dish of capitalism." Clothing made in Saipan could be labeled "made in the U.S.A", despite being produced from Chinese fabric by Chinese laborers who labor under Chinese law. The 30,000 "guest workers" there--predominately women from China, the Philippines, and Thailand who sew clothing for top-name American brands, which are then allowed to label them "made in USA--were not covered by U.S. minimum-wage and immigration laws.

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