ABSTRACT
International trade in the exportation of hazardous industries, products and technologies to the developing world has been widely documented recently in newspaper articles, magazines, journals and on educational television. However, little has been explored, researched, and/or written about the hazard export trade in the developing industrialization of the Irish Republic. As a result of the declining economy and escalating country-wide unemployment, the Irish Development Authority has successfully launched a campaign to attract foreign industry and capital to Ireland through the creation of attractive tax incentives, corporate loans and grants, cheap labor, access to the EEC markets, ready-built factories, rate exemptions, free infrastructllral services and share purchases. Until recently, only the United States and other major industrialized countries appeared concerned with health and environmental problems caused by unsafe industries, products and technologies. The bulk of these unsafe products were manufactured and used mainly in developing countries. Global manufacturing patterns and hazard export trade have dramatically changed from a national to international problem.
