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The best we could hope for would be bilateral and multilateral trade agreements that establish minimal enforcebable standards (child labor, prevailing wages, workplace safety, environmental quality) for our trading partners that best meet their specific socio-economic circumstances - something both Clinton and Bush failed to do in recent trade agreeements. There is no one-size-fits all approach that is practical.
Along with tarififfs on imports from foreign producers, including US subsidiaries, in developing countries where we have no such agreements, unless similar standards are met by those countries.
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
~ Voltaire
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