man-rights activists, Buchanan populists, greens and
             consumerists united for one common goalâ€"to dismantle the WTO and
             stop what they see as efforts of multinational corporations to
             monopolize the world's economy and resources. (O'Meara 2000)
             The WTO arose from a multilateral trade treated of 1947, intended as
             a temporary measure in the aftermath of WWII to lower international trade
             barriers. The WTO did not come into existence until 1995, with the
             declared purpose to administer global trade rules. Its proponents said it
             would all open up new markets for U.S. companies in increase U.S. exports
             (O'Meara 2000), again, by extension, creating jobs for Americans.
             Opponents said U.S. jobs would be exported to countries in which labor is
             exploited and the environment disregarded. (O'Meara 2000)
             Although it didn't admit that, a spokesman for Milliken & Co., the
             largest privately held textile company in the world, said the problem was
             that the WTO diminishes U.S. sovereignty in deciding tradeâ€"and therefore
             jobâ€"issues. That same spokesman said Congress and not some small secret
             group in Geneva, Switzerland, should decide U.S. trade issues. (O'Mear
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