Washington, D.C. — As President Trump visits Calgary, where he will attend one-on-one meetings about trade and other topics with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trade Justice Education Fund Executive Director Arthur Stamoulis issued the following statement about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal:
“Roughly five years in to the deal, it’s clear that the USMCA has not delivered the jobs and other benefits President Trump promised it would. The U.S. trade deficit is way up under the USMCA relative to the original trade agreement, and companies continue shipping good-paying jobs to Mexico to take advantage of ongoing labor rights abuses, lax pollution controls and abysmally-low wages.
“The mandatory, six-year review of the USMCA built into the pact is the perfect opportunity to rewrite the broken trade agreement in a way that benefits working people in all three countries.
“Among other things, a renegotiated deal should include much strong labor and environmental enforcement terms; direct wage increases; and the removal of giveaway provisions for Big Tech and other sectors.”
The Trade Justice Education Fund points to two recent resources on the USMCA:
- A letter on USMCA review priorities sent to the Trump administration last week by over 600 labor and civil society organizations across the U.S.
- A letter sent to President Trump by Democratic House freshmen earlier this month outlining changes needed to the USMCA.
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