Multinationals gain ultimate power over consumers by producing substandard products that have to be replaced in a short time (50). Quality, low-cost products and inventions are suppressed so that the population is forced to rely on the multinationals. Global and free trade, which favors the multinationals, leads to products of poorer quality and selection. As a result, many consumers will find it difficult to trust producers, including small firms which are still making good products even though they are being overshadowed by the larger industries.      

International agreements deceive the public that free trade and greater production rights given to the third world countries will help poor people in the third world countries, but instead they will only help multinationals with monopolies, who exploit almost all slave labor and destroy small businesses who can't compete (39).

Buying imported mass produced products seldom helps small businesses, small manufacturers or the average person in the countries they are made in. Most products are produced in free trade zones by corrupt multinational companies. Buying their products will only increase their power and make countries less independent.

Products have to be imported into countries under the Lima agreement, even when the country produces the product it has to import (39). This practice is destroying local producers through diseases which are brought in, and through the fact that local producers can't compete against the cheap imports of multinationals.