Multinational corporations export products and wastes banned in their home countries to poor nations

Evidence

When the FDA did finally succeed in having the drug banned in the United States, the firm continued to sell it in foreign countries, a practice that is not uncommon. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 875 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Waste firms sold toxic proposals to impoverished Tribes as green job schemes — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 599; Extraterritorial production pollutes the US through imported goods. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1000; Corporations apply laxer environmental standards where victims are dark-skinned and poor — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 318 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Drugs banned domestically are routinely exported for sale abroad #exemplifies (0.92) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 875