whether the imports be genetically modified or the product of slave labour (WTO Online(1) 1999). Such free trade opportunities obviously encourage a negative attitude from countries towards their labourers, and therefore result in poor work conditions and a diminished lifestyle; or even poverty. This phenomenon is referred to when we read about a country who ‘exports jobs’ to another, a catchcry of those who are in favour of tariffs (Ebeling 2000).Thus it can be seen, that through achieving the wants of multinational corporations, the livelihood of ordinary people can be severely compromised. In the constant search for profit and greed, headless organisations which hold the trade practices of an entire nation in their hands, can do insurmountable damage to exposed economies. The WTO states that its ultimate aim is to generate development in order to increase growth, it says that this is achieved by breaking down the barriers between economies and therefore forcing upon them the need to adopt new strategies. This, it says, will allow them to cope with fluctuating trends in the global marketplace (WTO Online(2) 1999). It forgets that these economies lack the infrastructure to capitalise on their own potentially competitive industries, and therefore must succumb to the will of self-focussed multinationals in order to preserve a tortured survival (Sirico 2000).It makes no sense that the WTO wishes countries to focus on those industries in which they are globally competitive, and yet allows dominating multinationals to ‘milk’ their local industries of their rightful funds. Wills proffers the example of Uganda and Nestle. Coffee being Uganda’s main export good, and Nestle being the multinational corporation which ‘exports jobs’ from its home economy, in order to rob Uganda’s workers of their equivalent wage and work conditions. The entire production process of the coffee is completed i...
