The social clause in the OMC: for a permanent interrelation between OMC and OIT and the respect to the basic rights of the workers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5433/2178-8189.2007v11n0p165Keywords:
Social clause, working standards, international trade, interrelation, basic principles.Abstract
The inclusion of social clause in the scope of the OMC, as form to eliminate lower conditions of work in the developing countries, is subject that comes exhaustingly being argued inside of the international relations of the commerce. The developed countries accuse the social developing countries with “dumping” and advocate for restrictions in the international trade to the countries that do not consecrate a minimum standard of requirements for the working class. The developing countries accuse the developed countries of waking use of this speech as form to protect their domestic markets. The arguments of both are reasonable, therefore, it is necessary to find an term intermediate, that interrelates OIT and OMC in the direction of protecting the involved workers in the process of production for the international market, at the same time, that it hinders the developed countries of tanking advantage of the social clause to impose protectionistic barriers, harming the developing countries.