Down and Almost Out in Mongolia -NYT

[Rose Siding]

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - On Genghis Khan Avenue, Mongolia's garment factory workers are begging for mercy.

"I am praying this company won't close," said Dejidmaa Sosorijav, 39, pausing from trimming white threads from a man's jacket destined for the United States. Employed for the last year in an American-owned factory, Mrs. Sosorijav, a mother of three, added: "It is very hard for a person my age to find a job. Mongolian-owned companies say '35 or younger.' "

The death knell for Mongolia's garment industry will ring on Jan. 1, when a decades-old global quota system is to end, freeing American and European fashion companies and retailers, in the long run, to buy as many clothes as they want from the lowest-cost producers, notably China, India and Pakistan.

This effort at market liberalizing is expected to save American consumers as much as $6 billion a year, though higher tariffs imposed temporarily by China, as well as possible additional limits established in the United States and Europe, are expected to shave off some of those savings.

But the new wave is still expected to upend the world garment industry, shuffling millions of jobs in dozens of the world's poorest countries. Buyers are expected over time to shift their purchases to the largest and cheapest producers.........

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/business/worldbusiness/29mongolia.html?oref=login

[Javaman]

1. Sorry but charity begins at home, bring the jobs back here.

[Rose Siding]

2. They aren't coming back here

They are going to China.

[slor]

3. The corporate "charity" is going...

to China. Read it again, it is not coming here, at least not until the chimp regime sufficiently destroys this country and we become a Third world nation. So, unless China is your home, do not expect that "charity".

[sandnsea]

4. We need to lead in discovery again

That's how to have new, good paying jobs. Clinton invested in new technologies, that's how we got an economic boom, just like in the 60's and every generation before that. Only since Reagan and his stupid trickle down bullshit did we stop investing in our own future. It's true that these textile jobs and even some tech jobs are gone forever. It's also true that the new jobs will go and we will have to lead the way in innovations not even thought of; over and over again.