{"id":6008,"date":"2020-12-08T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2020-12-08T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T21:04:20","slug":"trade-policy-recommendations-for-the-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2020\/12\/08\/trade-policy-recommendations-for-the-biden-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Policy Recommendations for the Biden-Harris Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Citizens Trade Campaign has published its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CTC_TradeRecommendations_113020.pdf\">recommendations to the Biden-Harris transition team<\/a> on how the incoming administration can advance a new model of trade policy that creates good jobs, raises wages, reduces inequality, prevents climate catastrophe and otherwise ensures strong, healthy and resilient communities across the United States and beyond.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Our cross-sector coalition believes that a new direction on trade is needed both to achieve the greatest success possible from the President-elect\u2019s \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d economic recovery, COVID-19, racial justice and climate plans, and to win over a public largely skeptical of policymaker promises when it comes to trade agreements.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>CTC is urging the Biden-Harris administration to:<\/div>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Firmly reject the failed trade model of the past <\/i><\/b>by halting Trump-era trade negotiations with Kenya, the United Kingdom and within the World Trade Organization; prioritizing the creation of a new model of trade agreements in partnership with Congress and civil society organizations; and renegotiating existing trade agreements to conform with that new model.<\/li>\n<p>\n<li><strong><i>Restore U.S. manufacturing capacity, protect worker rights and improve U.S. resilience <\/i><\/strong>by\u00a0strengthening labor standards, rules of origin, public procurement, currency and enforcement mechanisms,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><i>Defend a livable future and create green jobs by prioritizing climate action<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0in trade policy, including through the adoption and enforcement of strong, cross-border\u00a0climate standards and an end to investor-state dispute settlement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><i><strong>Eliminate trade rules that drive up the costs of medicine at home and abroad<\/strong>, <\/i>especially in the face of the COVID crisis,\u00a0waiving trade-related intellectual property rules for vaccines, treatments and other medical technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Protect family farmers and\u00a0consumers alike<\/i><\/b> by defending strong food safety and consumer right-to-know measurers and supporting the movement for supply management of agricultural production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Safeguard the ability to regulate the digital economy<\/i><\/b> by rejecting trade proposals that restrict consumer privacy measures, offshore service-sector jobs, help corporations evade legal liability and that obscure algorithm biases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Facilitate transparency and public participation in trade policymaking<\/i><\/b> by publishing and soliciting public comment on U.S. trade proposals before suggesting them to other countries and by publishing negotiating documents in as close to real-time as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A more-detailed copy of CTC&#8217;s recommendations is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CTC_TradeRecommendations_113020.pdf\">online here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens Trade Campaign has published its recommendations to the Biden-Harris transition team on how the incoming administration can advance a new model of trade policy that creates good jobs, raises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[115,111,116,114,113],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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