Trade Justice Eduction Fund Calls for Citizen Comments on the USMCA Trade Agreement by Nov. 6
The USMCA just entered a mandatory review period, during which countries can make changes to the pact — or extend it as written for another 16 years.
When first signed, the USMCA was hailed as “the best trade deal ever” and we were promised it would bring “jobs pouring into the United States”, be “an especially great victory for our farmers”, and provide other concrete benefits to the American people.
Instead, the U.S. trade deficit has skyrocketed under the deal. One major reason: the pact failed to add the provisions needed to prevent greedy corporations from shipping good-paying jobs to Mexico to take advantage of ongoing labor rights violations, lax pollution controls and abysmally-low wages.
On top of that, the trade deal was also rigged with power grab provisions that let Big Tech undermine personal privacy, data security and AI accountability — and help companies more-easily offshore digital economy jobs.
Now that the USMCA is up for review, corporate interests will be seeking to even further rig the pact with additional giveaways that enrich themselves at the expense of working people, farmers and the environment in all three countries. We need to push back!
Hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of individuals are pushing trade negotiators to rewrite the USMCA in the interests of working families and communities.
For more information, go to www.tradejusticeedfund.org.
