Dear Trade Justice advocate,
It’s official.
After repeatedly promising to make NAFTA “a lot better” or scrap the deal, Donald Trump just officially informed Congress he plans to renegotiate this notoriously disastrous trade pact with Canada and Mexico.
Trump may talk a good game about making trade deals fairer, but increasingly it appears that his big promises on trade were as empty as most of his other campaign promises.
Sign our petition telling Trump’s top trade negotiator to replace NAFTA with a deal that actually benefits working people in all three NAFTA countries, not just multinational corporations.
It seems the President doesn’t feel the need to share details about his NAFTA plans with the public. His official notice to Congress reveals very little.
But a month ago, his draft plan leaked. It looked like a wish list written by the droves of corporate CEOs who have visited him at the White House.
Here’s what it contained:
- Expanded incentives for corporations to offshore jobs.
- More shady NAFTA tribunals of three corporate lawyers who can order taxpayers to fork over unlimited sums to corporations.
- Rollbacks of food safety policies.
- Even more power for Wall Street.
Instead of Trump’s campaign promises to make NAFTA better for working people, the document reflects his Corporate Cabinet of millionaires, billionaires and Wall Street executives.
Trump is also keeping the same corporate-dominated process that crafted the TPP and the original NAFTA, in which hundreds of corporate advisers have privileged access to negotiators and everything is done behind closed doors.
Instead of abolishing this corporate advisers’ club, so far it’s business as usual.
And then there’s the ever-present problem of Trump’s pervasive conflicts of interest.
We know that the Trump Empire includes 14 Canadian and two Mexican businesses. So in whose interest will he be negotiating?
Tell Trump’s top trade negotiator: Replace NAFTA with a deal that puts working people before corporate interests.
NAFTA needs to be replaced.
But we need a replacement that puts people and the planet first, not one that hands more power to giant multinational corporations.
In Solidarity,
Will Wiltschko
Lead Organizer - California
Citizens Trade Campaign / California Trade Justice Coalition
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