Operating Ethical Guidelines

¶ … Operating/ethical guidelines of International Trade. The objective of this paper is to discuss issues associated with the expansion of international trade related to pollution, worker rights, and product safety/standards and issues associated with property rights/trade secrets when operating in multiple countries. The expansion of international trade has its pros and cons. On one hand it increases communication between countries on the other hands issues like pollution, worker rights, product safety become extremely important and sometimes need immediate attention.

There are a number of organizations, which make sure that there is no exploitation of foreign workers at any time but international trade may promote exploitation of foreign workers and they try hard to eliminate all sweatshops and stop child labor. Humans have harnessed goods and services from Aquatic Ecosystems for millennia. On the other hand, an extraordinary number of human population and, in particular, certain unsustainable practices are putting pressure on these ecosystems such that their reduced stability and productivity is threatening further development.

The issues of greatest concern relate to living natural resources e.g. global fisheries crises threaten overall sustainability of productive ecosystems, often driven by subsidies and insufficient governance preparations; introduction of alien species, food security, quality and safety e.g. international trade, environmentally sustainable aquaculture; healthy river basins and clean water resources, coastal and marine management e.g. modest progress with poverty eradication and continued conflicting demands on resources, tourism, sea level rise and marine and freshwater pollution e.g. pesticides and endocrine disrupters, oil, nutrients.

Nearly all of these issues were featured strongly at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio in 1992 and were addressed in Agenda 21. International trade is expanding dynamically, which has made product manufacturers less conscious regarding the standard and safety of their products. There are new products being produced all the time and new products coming into the country are those which are brand new and hence the quality control departments have to.