Dumping

Running head: If no law is broken, is there anything wrong with dumping? If so, when is it wrong and why? Do any moral considerations support dumping products overseas when this violates U.S. law?

Case Studies

CASE 1.1: Made in the U.S.A.—Dumped in Brazil, Africa, Iraq…

Mario Maghirang

DeVry University

The big question of dumping product overseas especially to the developing countries is obviously unethical and unacceptable trade practices driven by today’s business competitiveness and what they call “Corporate Greed”. This is the result of free trade economy around the globe and the product of Capitalism. Just like the U.S business strategy cited in the textbook “CASE 1.1: Made in the U.S.A.—Dumped in Brazil, Africa, Iraq…” where 200 million pairs of fire retardant pajamas were a big hit in the United States consumer and then banned and recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). “ Reason: The pajamas contained the flame-retardant chemical Tris (2,3-dibromoprophyl), which had been found to cause kidney cancer in children.”(Textbook pp. 37, CASE 1.1: Made in the U.S.A.—Dumped in Brazil, Africa, Iraq…) Exporter advertised the product at 10 to 30 percent below the normal product price. Their immoral and unethical business practice kicks-in with the clear intent of dumping carcinogenic pajamas on overseas markets. Here’s another case, “Tris is not the only example of dumping. There were the 450,000 baby pacifiers, of the type known to have caused choking deaths, that were exported for sale overseas, and the 400 Iraqis who died and the 5,000 who were hospitalized after eating wheat and barley treated with a U.S.-banned organic mercury fungicide. Winstrol, a synthetic male hormone that had been found to stunt the growth of American children, was made available in Brazil as an appetite stimulant for children. DowElanco sold its weed killer Galant in Costa Rica, although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) forbade its sale to U.S....