How do You Feel About Corporate Dumping?

Corporate Dumping is considered a corporate crime by some and is an international harm in many ways, but it often goes unpunished because technically it isn't illegal.

Corporate dumping is essentially "dumping" a product not deemed fit for the United States onto other countries (usually third world) by exporting goods that have been banned or not approved for sale. So basically we are given our reject products to countries where they don't protect their citizens as well or have as high of standards to still make a profit.

On example in the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. It killed 17 women in the US before it was pulled from the market. It was then shipped to third world countries.

How do you feel about this? Is it ethical just because the other countries might not have pulled it if it was manufactured there first? Are certain products okay and not others? Or is this wrong in all ways? less

Corporate Dumping is considered a corporate crime by some and is an international harm in many ways, but it often goes unpunished because technically it isn't illegal.

Corporate dumping is essentially "dumping" a product not deemed fit for the United States onto other countries (usually third world) by exporting goods that have been banned or not approved for sale. So basically we are given our reject products to countries where they don't protect their citizens as well or have as high of standards to still make a profit.

On example in the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. It killed 17 women in the US before it was pulled from the market. It was then shipped to third world countries.

How do you feel about this? Is it ethical just because the other countries might not have pulled it if it was manufactured there first? Are certain products okay and not others? Or is this wrong in all ways? less

I don't really know how to feel about this since I see both sides. We are offering products to countries that might not get them otherwise. While the Dalkon Shield example did kill people, it also helped many more. From a utilitarian perspective it helped the greater good of the greatest number of people. But...there still is the ethics of it. It seems wrong especially when looking at the financial push behind it. less