The business world of the United States of America has done everything to become as profitable as it is currently. After the Great Depression, the numbers favoring the United States skyrocketed. According to the United Nations list of countries by gross domestic product, the United States ranks first in terms of economic value. Something to consider though is whether all the credit should be given only to the states and their hard workers. As seen in the CIA World Factbook, China is responsible for 19% of the country's imports; but who knows if those people are actually benefiting from the success America has brought them. The truth is, they didn't. The emergence of international trade and other aspects of American globalization is not a glamorous story. Products brought to consumers by a major importing country over the last three centuries or so are produced in a much more painful environment than anyone wants to even consider. These factories that companies including Wal-Mart are trying to prevent from becoming public knowledge are the use of Chinese sweatshops. In China people are taken to these sweatshops where they often face disgusting working conditions, little or no benefits for their employees, as well as abuse and abuse of young children. Upon entering a Wal-Mart corporate office in a major city, one would expect expectations of cleanliness, among other well-regarded and well-maintained ideas of a professional office; entering a building found in China, one would absolutely not expect the same thing. According to the Huffington Post “16 and 17 year olds work 15 hours… middle of paper… reverse. Facts On File News Services, March 7, 1997. Web. May 27, 2014."Microsoft to investigate conditions at Chinese plant." Huffington Post: Technology. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., April 15, 2010. Web. May 24, 2014. Miller, Daniel. "Appalling conditions for workers producing Dell computers, forced to work 7 days a week, 74 hours a week and live in dormitories without hot water." Post online. Associated newspapers, 8 November 2013. Web. 25 May 2014. Paolo Feine. McBastards: McDonald's and globalization. 2011. Imagine Deeply: Reading, Writing, and Researching Topics. By Christine L. Alfaro and Alyssa J. O'Brien. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson/Longman, 2011. 372-76. Print."Sweatshops in China." ProQuest: Asian Affairs. Dow Jones & Company Inc, February 14, 2012. Web. May 25, 2014. “Exploited Labor.” Problems and controversies. Facts On File News Services, July 15, 2013. Web. May 27 2014.