社会条款 meaning in English

social clause

Labor standards have increasingly become a great issue in the international trade in recent years and will remain to be a controversial one between developed countries and developing countries . while developed countries have taken great efforts to establish the correlation between labor standards and trade , they failed to incorporate labor standards issue into wto agenda because of the resistance from developing countries
近年来劳工标准问题愈演愈烈，以美国为首的发达国家希望将劳工标准同国际贸易相联系，即希望劳工标准同贸易政策相联系，并试图通过在gatt中引入“社会条款”的形式来对低劳工标准的发展中国家进行贸易制裁。