The Reasch Of Protection Of International Labou Rights In International Trade

In this paper, the status of the international labour rights protection will be analyzed at first. Labour situation of developed country is better protected than the developing countries. Labour of the developed countries generally has higher working conditions ,wages and benefits .Some developed countries try their best, through bilateral or regional trade agreements or multilateral trade agreements,to set the terms of the protection of labor rights for fair trades, labour rights protection and trade competitiveness are linked together, such as the United States and the European Union. They believe that the trade products of developing countries are largely made in the conditions of against the interests of labour and this is a kind of unfair trade.In developing countries ,the leveal of economy is backward ,and there are indeed a lot of problems in protection of rights and interests of workers, such as poor working conditions, arbitrary extension of working time, the use of child labour, forced labour. Faced with the pressure of the developed countries and the trend of international trade linked with labour rights, developing countries have begun to improve the national labor conditions and wages, benefits as far as possible, and to formulate relevant laws and policies. However, it still has a large gap to the requirements of the developed countries.So far the negotiations of international labour standards, seeing from the final outcome, the international community can be basically divided into two camps, one of camps is the developed countries, and the other is developing countries .Seeing from the long term, there is no dispute that they should comply with international labour standards, and safeguard the rights and interests of workers. The focus of controversy lies in the fact that the developed countries believe developing countries can not strictly enforce labour standards in the recent time ,resulting that the products of developing countries cost much less than developed countries in the international trade, makes the closure of related industries and workers unemployed in the developed countries, it is unfaire; developing countries persist that it is a disguised form of trade protectionism, and developing countries do not hope labour standards impact on the country's economic development.The United States is the positive implementation of the trade linked with labour rights. The United States hit a snag through multilateral trade agreements to promote labour standards linked with trade practices over the global once, but the ambitions of United States to promote labour standards in global is not impeded. First the United States through bilateral trade agreements imposed labour standards on the trade partners. Cambodia and the United States has made "the United States - Cambodia textile and apparel trade agreement", made with Jordan, "the United States and Jordan free trade agreement", and made with Chile ,"United States and Chile free trade agreement", which were relevant to the issue of labour standards. Besides, the United States insisit implement of SA8000 certification standards in the global, required the companies that signed trade contracts with the United States as far as possible to achieve the requirements. SA8000 is an important component of the next international competition to succeed for the enterprise or organization, but may like a variety of certification of international standards, become a new trade barriers.Today, the increasing attention being given to the labour rights, the developing countries on this must hold a proper attitude. The author thinks that labour standards linked or contacted with international trade, is an inevitable trend, the developing countries must keep a correct view. Those who believe that labour issues linked to trade are trade barriers, so as to avoid the practice is not advisable. First of all, developing countries should respect the basic principles of international labour conventions, and then base on their country's own actual situation and their country's political, economic and social development stage and level,and improve the national labour legislation, and gradually convergence with international labour standards. At the same time, developing countries must be given certain special and differential treatment for fair competition.China, as a typical representative of the developing countries, holding the same view with the most developing countries, the Chinese government opposed traditionally on the issue of the labour rights linked with trade, saying that it is a kind of trade barriers under the new situation. In the fact of the developed countries are dominating global trade situation, coupled with our labour rights issues being a very grim situation, we have to attach importance to labour rights. Faced with the new challenges and threats, we should seriously analyze the gap, and actively explore the strategy of combination of internal and external response to adapt to the future of international trade environment .Only this,we can maintain the international competitiveness advantage in the future.