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- <text id=93TT1702>
- <title>
- May 17, 1993: No More Dockers
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- BUSINESS
- No More Dockers
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> As President Clinton ponders whether to extend China's
- most-favored-nation trading status, Levi Strauss & Co., the
- world's largest maker of name-brand apparel, has decided to
- phase out its Chinese operations because of "pervasive
- violations" of human rights. The decision abides by the
- company's investment guidelines, adopted last year. A Chinese
- Foreign Ministry official downplayed the impact. "At present
- there are tens of thousands of foreign companies investing in
- China," he said. "If one or two want to withdraw, please do."
- Levi's withdrawal will halt production of 5 million pants and
- shirts a year.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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