Businessweek aritcle about american importers have long answered criticism of conditions at their chinese suppliers. New labor rules and inspections have been made to try and end sweatshops. Factories have just gotten better at conceling abuses. Tang Yinghong caught in an impossible squeeze. He has been employing, Ningbo Beifa Group. They are a top supplier of pen, mechanical pencils, and highlighters to Wal-Mart Stores. Auditors form Wal-Mart, Beifa's biggest customer, were about to inspect labor condtions at the factory in the chinese coastal city of Nigbo. Wal-mart had already on three different occasions caught Beifa paying its 3,000 workers less than China's minimum wage and violating overtime rules. "For more than a decade, major American retailers and name brands have answered accusations that they exploit "sweatshop" labor with elaborate codes of conduct and on-site monitoring. But in China many factories have just gotten better at concealing abuses." These companies are just getting away with sweatshops in china. There is not enough effert on stoping sweatshops.
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