Today, LTG GOLDROCK will tell you about what are the main reasons for social barriers ~
There are four main reasons for social barriers:
Excessive use of labor cost advantages in developing countries
Due to the relatively backward technology of developing countries and poor production conditions, the overall disadvantage in the international market competition.In order to reduce the cost of products and improve the competitiveness of products in the international market, they must create some advantages in labor costs.Due to the differences in labor salary levels , working hours, labor environment, and safety and health status, national production costs with low labor standards have low production costs, and relatively comparative advantages in international trade .Developed countries believes that the cost of low labor standards for developing countries will definitely lead to "social dumping " to high -labor -standard countries.Therefore, developed countries proposed that while international trade liberalization, a unified international labor standard should be formulated in the trade agreement, and products that cannot meet international standard countries should be made.
Multinational companies in developed countries are pursuing high profits
Companies in developed countries look at developing countries Low labor costs and poor production conditions. In developing countries, companies will be opened in developing countries, allowing local workers tolong-time working.When these situations were exposed and the labor organization protested, multinational companies had to formulate their own social responsibility rules.Due to the differences in social responsibility rules between multinational companies, in order to balance and unify these differences, the Social Responsibility International (SAI) has formulated SA8000 for social responsibility standards, and social responsibility standard SA8000 may become the most important measure for social barriers.At present, the Global Purchasing Group is very important to focus on products from SA8000 certification companies, which forces many companies to invest in huge manpower, material resources, and financial resources to apply for and maintain the certification system.
Various international conventions and international legal documents
Internationally, the concern of the rights and interests of workers has a long history. There are more than 100 relevant international conventions. International labor organizations also specify the issues of workers' rights and labor standards in detail.At the 13th World Employee Security Conference held in New Delhi in 1993, representatives of EU countries proposed to incorporate human rights, environmental protection and labor conditions into the international trade category, and improving the economic and social rights of workers to improve the economic and social rights of workers.Since then, it has also stipulated that only countries and regions that use the same labor safety and health standards can participate in the trade zone in the trade zone.
New trade protectionism
In recent years, the major developed countries have been weak in economic growth, and competitive relations in the international market have changed. Thousands of developed countries have tried to use measures to limit developing countries to develop products in developing countries and reduce the competitiveness of developing countries in the international market. They are their commonly used methods.With the weakening of traditional trade barriers , new trade protectors are anxious to seek new means to protect their domestic industries .On the one hand, they built a higher non -tariff trade barrier , on the other hand, covering up their trade protectionism, making their trade protection measures more "just right", and they are just linking labor rights and economic issues as "social clauses"., Thus gradually becoming a social barrier.
