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"Made in the U.S.A." - The Saipan Sweatshop Litigation
Litigation has recently been filed against more than a dozen high-profile U.S. clothing manufacturers and retailers, charging them with engaging in a ?racketeering conspiracy? using indentured labor to produce clothing on the island of Saipan, one of the Northern Mariana Islands (a U.S. Commonwealth), located in the Central Pacific. In recent years, Asian-based companies have established dozens of low-tech garment factories and shanty-like housing compounds on the islands, drawn there in part by the lack of tariffs and production quotas that the U.S. otherwise imposes on Asian imports.
