We need you to send a clear message to Congress that President Obama’s progressive vision of reform must be inserted into ongoing TPP trade talks.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations start up this week in San Francisco, and include the U.S. and seven Asian and Latin American countries. These meetings offer a long-overdue opportunity to address trade failures of the past, and lay out a new framework for the future.
During his campaign, President Barack Obama outlined a bold vision for trade reform. He committed to create a new model for American trade agreements that puts working people, the environment, family farms and consumers first.
But we cannot be too optimistic. TPP negotiations present both possibilities and peril.
If corporations get their way, a future TPP will include the worst copy-cat provisions cloned from NAFTA and CAFTA. Their multinational pro-status-quo agenda would mirror much of the proposed Bush trade language with Colombia, Panama and Korea.
These failed attempts represent an ending point for the last administration, not a starting point for the new one.
We want to help the President craft a trade agreement that can last, rather than fighting against one that looks like the past.
That’s where you come in.
We need to make clear we need a new deal, or there’s no deal, when it comes to the TPP.
Write to your elected officials and urge them to support the President’s trade reform commitments. Ask them to demand a TPP that ditches the NAFTA model and crafts a new agenda that works for all of us. Request that they use the TRADE Act as a roadmap to do it right this time.
Another world is possible! Another trade model is needed!
For more on the TPP, visit www.citizenstrade.org/tpp.php
To see Obama trade commitments, visit www.citizenstrade.org/hope.php