{"id":498,"date":"2017-06-02T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/oregon\/?p=498"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T22:07:53","slug":"nafta-renegotiated-brief-important-window-public-comments-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/oregon\/2017\/06\/02\/nafta-renegotiated-brief-important-window-public-comments-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFTA is being renegotiated. And there is a brief, important window for Public Comments. (Speak Up.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Trump\u2019s intentions for NAFTA are in motion.\u00a0 The \u201crenegotiation\u201d of NAFTA will go down this summer.\u00a0 Right now, the new United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer is accepting public comments on how the renegotiation should take place (\u2026 what it should prioritize).\u00a0 This comment period ends June 12<\/strong>, making this a critical time to be heard. \u00a0Send him some language on what the possibility of a people- and planet-centered North American Free Trade Agreement looks like. <\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For almost a quarter century, NAFTA has been enriching corporate elites at the expense of working people and the environment in the United States, Mexico and Canada.\u00a0 NAFTA\u2019s forthcoming renegotiation should be used to stop the pact\u2019s ongoing damage and to create a replacement that puts people over profits.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, many of the same corporations behind NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) view the re-opening of NAFTA as a way to further expand their own corporate power agenda.<\/p>\n

It is time to TAKE ACTION <\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<\/span><\/span> Submit public comments on NAFTA’s renegotiation now demanding a transparent process that puts human needs ahead of corporate greed.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We need a NAFTA replacement that, among other things, includes strong, binding and enforceable labor and environmental standards; that requires imported food to meet domestic safety standards; that defends \u201cBuy America\u201d and \u201cBuy Local\u201d public procurement preferences; and that eliminates investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions that promote job offshoring and give multinational corporations power to sue governments over environmental, health and other public interest protections before tribunals of three corporate lawyers.<\/p>\n

In sum, speak up. \u00a0And be ready \u2014\u00a0to struggle for a trade agreement that would live up to Trump’s promise of something that is\u00a0“a lot better” for working people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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