EUFAULA, Alabama "” Here in this courtly, antebellum town, Alabama"™s condom production has survived an onslaught of Asian competition, thanks to the patronage of straitlaced congressmen from this Bible Belt state.
Behind the scenes, the politicians have ensured that companies in Alabama won federal contracts to make billions of condoms over the years for
AIDS prevention and family planning programs overseas, though Asian factories could do the job at less than half the cost.
In recent years, the state"™s condom manufacturers fell hundreds of millions of condoms behind on orders, and the federal aid agency began buying them from Asia. The use of Asian-made condoms has contributed to layoffs that are coming next month.
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Is this right,,We are paying double cost inflated rubbers to ship to other countries for free????[&:]
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