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NAFTA vs May 17th
Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, announced that if Congress is not notified that a finalized agreement has been completed for revising NAFTA by May 17, Congress will not be able to pass any revised Read more…
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No NAFTA 2.0, We Need a Full Replacement
It is time to be alert. NAFTA negotiations are happening at an intensive rate at the USTR’s headquarters in Washington D.C. and government representatives from the US, Canada, and Mexico are seeking to come out Read more…
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Trade for Workers Ends the Race to the Bottom
Trump’s trade policy has proven to be a corporate trade agenda obscured by the chaos of improvisation and inconsistency. Last night, Trump said that he didn’t like the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the United States and Read more…
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USW: Securing Labor Rights in Mexico Fundamental to NAFTA Reform
United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement in conjunction with the release of a letter sent to USTR Robert Lighthizer yesterday regarding proposed labor law reforms in Mexico. Correcting the Read more…
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Tariff Debate Takeaways
In the context of the tariffs on steel and aluminum that the Trump administration announced in the past weeks, a lot has happened. Exemptions were given to Canada and Mexico, the former which is the Read more…
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The TPP has been signed, we need to build power
The TPP-11 was signed. NAFTA is in negotiations. Tariffs are being imposed. People and the environment are not being put first. We must keep building power and fight for trade that truly benefits people and Read more…
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ISDS Threatening Washington State Salish Sea
Image courtesy of Our Sound, Our Salmon The Canadian fish farm corporation, Cooke Aquaculture, threatened to use the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) investor-state dispute settlement arbitration courts as a last resort to avoid Read more…
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Trudeau Pushing For Free Trade in the US
Canada’s ambitions in courting US actors to support their trade agenda was on full display last week as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was inaugurating a tour in the United States to promote his administration’s trade Read more…
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Will Trudeau ‘opt-in’ to ISDS?
As NAFTA’s negotiations begin today, Canadians are rising up to demand that their government agrees to no more corporate trade deals. The protests are particularly timely as there is speculation that in order to take Read more…
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While Trump flip-flops on NAFTA, we insist on transparency and no border wall
The news cycle this week has been filled with stories on whether Trump has the intentions of terminating NAFTA or not. While there has been ample discussion of the veracity of such speculation, what we Read more…