Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
On April 24, 2013, the world witnessed the deadliest industrial disaster in the textile sector when a building collapse in Bangladesh killed 1129 ready-made garment workers. In the aftermath, both the United States (U.S.) and the European Union (E.U.) threatened to suspend Bangladesh from their Generalized System of Preference (GSP)' facility, clearly to pressure the Bangladeshi government to improve labor conditions. Ultimately, though the E.U. backtracked from the threat, the U.S. suspended its GSP treatment to Bangladesh as a "symbolic move to punish the country for poor labor practices" that particularly attracted the world's attention after the Savar building collapse. While, as preference giving entities, it remains up to the U.S.'s and E.U.'s discretion to withdraw or suspend GSP, this article focuses on a related issue: the implication of duty-free quota-free (DFQF) market access provisions in the WTO, since Bangladesh, as a least developed country (LDC), would be entitled to the DFQF market access treatment from all developed countries.
Recommended Citation
Tania, Sharmin J., "Duty-Free Quota-Free Market Access for LDCS: Falling Within or Outside the GSP Downsides" (2013). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 538.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/538
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