BANANAS

• Banana - august 2001 - Chiquita signs "historic" worker rights agreement with Unions and the IUF
  (see document)
• Banana - September 1998 - Dozens of U.S. and European human rights, environmental, labor and citizen groups called on Chiquita to meet with the workers' representatives who report new and ongoing human rights abuses

 

 

• Banana - May 1998 - Backgrounds Papers of the Banana Conference held in Bruxelles on 4-6 May 1998

 

 

• Banana - January 1998 - Del Monte and trade union Sitrap sign a general agreement about trade-union relations (see document)

 

 

• Banana - September 1997 - WTO banana decision spells potencial ruin for thousends of small farmers
• Banana - Complete report on banana companies, production, trade and actions.

 

 

• Banana - July 1997 - The WTO's Dispute Panel Interim Report on EU's banana regime.

COFFEE

• Coffee - January 1998 - Starbucks progress toward implementing a code of conduct (see document)

SHOES

• Shoes - November 1995 - US and global sportshoe market share. Income and profits of the major enterprises.
• Shoes - November 1995 - Christian Aid's report about sportshoes industry

TEA

• Tea - 1996 - "Tea production"

 

 

TEXTILES

• Textiles - 1998 - Garment production in Romania

 

 

• Textiles - The new international division of labour in the textile and footwear sector (see "Globalization changes the face of TCF industries" )