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What's Right with Germany I hope the signs of Germany's economic turnaround, discussed in "Back on Track" [July 26], are real. But this recovery must be export driven. The country's lack of domestic consumption is not due to fear of the future but to people not having...
In an even more controversial instance, at least 53% of all U.S. high-fashion footwear manufacturers stand accused of marketing gloves as shoes and selling them at radically marked-up prices. A Footwear Council official's argument that "hands and feet are both five-digit extremities and both feel best...
The battle over labeling is raging in Congress among different factions of the food industry, some helped and others hurt by increased imports. Two years ago, farmers and ranchers, allied with consumer groups, won the day, and a new federal law set a deadline of Sept. 30, 2004, for retailers...
Whether patriotic or protectionist, country-of-origin legislation, after years of debate, got a boost from terrorism. "With 9/11, COOL took on a life of its own as a food-safety issue," says Barry Scher, vice president of Ahold, the supermarket conglomerate. "It got hard for Congress to look the...
But while retailers allege it will cost billions to comply, consumer activists claim that COOL is doable. Forty-eight other countries require identification by national origin for one or more commodities. And since 1980, Florida has mandated the labeling of foreign produce--an effort that takes an estimated two man...