An example is the import of labor-intensive goods by the United States from China.

By addressing Brazilian child labor, he wanted to ease the worries of unions and other interest groups over an invasion of cheap, labor-intensive goods.

When we import labor-intensive manufactured goods from the third world instead of making them here, the result is reduced demand for less-educated American workers, which leads in turn to lower wages for these workers.

In fact, Leontief found that the United States (then the most capital abundant nation) exported primarily labor-intensive goods.

Despite low wage rates, the dong's relative strength has largely eliminated Vietnam's advantage as a base for manufacturing labor-intensive goods.

Much of this expansion is in low-cost, labor-intensive goods, but increasingly China is gaining access to high technology, often aided by the Chinese diaspora in East Asia.

The Progressive Policy Institute, a Democratic research group, found that the American tariff system is "uniquely tough" on poor countries in Asia and the Muslim world that produce labor-intensive goods.

Tariffs also tend to be anti-poor, with low rates for raw commodities and high rates for labor-intensive processed goods.

The smuggling of labor-intensive goods.

In this way, Taiwan could exploit its comparative advantage in labor-intensive goods on the world market.