1.   The most controversial proposal involved an attempt to link trade with labor standards to ensure that workers from all WTO nations enjoy basic rights, such as collective bargaining.

2.   Watt said that because labor is a key constituency of the Democrats, Gore would be likely to push harder than Bush to link trade with labor concerns.

3.   A core group of developing countries in the World Trade Organization hardened its stand Tuesday against Western demands to link trade with human rights at workplaces.

4.   A core group of developing countries Tuesday rejected any attempts by the group to link trade with labor rights.

5.   A core group of developing countries Tuesday rejected any attempt by the group to link trade with labor rights.

6.   ASEAN is united in its opposition to Western attempts to link trade with labor standards.

7.   But a core group of developing countries Tuesday rejected any attempts by the group to link trade with labor rights.

8.   In the Eighties, even, there were attempts by the then European Community to link trade with the environment.

9.   Mahathir has strongly criticized the United States and other nations for trying to link trade and aid with human rights, labor rights and other issues.

10.   The EU is also a major proponent of the social clause, an attempt to link trade with social conditionalities such as human and labour rights and environmental protection.