The Obama administration has publicly recommended measures for Bangladesh to have its trade privileges with the United States restored. Three weeks after announcing an end to GSP for Bangladesh products, the administration released an “Action Plan,” which calls on Bangladesh to significantly increase the number of labor fire and building inspectors and to improve their training. The plan urges Bangladesh to impose stiffer penalties, including taking away export licenses, on garment factories that violate labor, fire or building safety standards. In addition, the Obama administration wants Bangladesh to create a public database of all garment factories for reporting labor fire and building inspections, including information on violations found, penalties assessed and violations corrected, with the names of the lead inspectors. The administration suspended Bangladesh’s trade privileges after a furor caused by the Rana Plaza factory building...