{"id":6252,"date":"2025-04-11T22:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2025-04-11T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T03:14:42","slug":"provisions-needed-for-pending-trade-deals-to-benefit-working-people-and-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2025\/04\/11\/provisions-needed-for-pending-trade-deals-to-benefit-working-people-and-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Let Pending Trade Deals Become Yet Another Corporate Power Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration claims over 75 foreign governments have reached out to it seeking trade deals aimed at lowering tariffs.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The provisions in any new trade deals matter! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether with Vietnam, Japan, Argentina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Kingdom or any other country, President Trump’s new trade deals cannot be rushed forward via a closed-door process that favors billionaire investors and corporate lobbyists, while shutting out the public. \u00a0People deserve the right to know what’s being proposed in our names.<\/p>\n

Worryingly, many of the so-called “barriers to trade” listed for elimination in the Trump administration\u2019s recent 397-page\u00a0National Trade Estimate report<\/a>\u00a0(including food safety, access to medicine, consumer privacy, financial and other public interest policies) are the types of things corporate lobbyists have always pushed for \u2014 the same corporate giveaway provisions snuck into \u201cfree trade\u201d agreements for decades.<\/p>\n

The following checklist outlines trade provisions that would actually benefit working people and communities, instead of just big corporations.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 ENFORCE RIGHTS & REDUCE OFFSHORING:<\/b> Establish strong labor and environmental standards backed by swift-and-certain, facility-specific enforcement mechanisms with meaningful penalties for violations \u2014 protecting rights and removing corporations\u2019 major incentives to offshore jobs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 RAISE WAGES:<\/b> Condition application of any agreement\u2019s benefits to goods and services produced by workers making a fair wage, and require supply chain transparency on wages.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 PREVENT CIRCUMVENTION:<\/b> Include strong Rules of Origin to ensure the parts going into goods assembled in trade partner countries are made in countries meeting high standards and wage requirements (including the U.S.).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 RESPECT PROCUREMENT:<\/b> Eliminate bans on \u201cBuy American,\u201d \u201cBuy Domestic,\u201d \u201cBuy Green\u201d and other public procurement preferences.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 STRENGTHEN RURAL COMMUNITIES:<\/b> Safeguard governments\u2019 rights to manage agricultural supplies at fair prices that at least cover farmers\u2019 costs of production and through tariff protections that allow for stable domestic supplies and discourage dumping.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 ENABLE CONSUMER RIGHT-TO-KNOW:<\/b> Establish mandatory Country of Origin Labeling rules for beef, pork, dairy, egg and seafood products.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 STOP DEMONIZING IMMIGRANTS:<\/b> Address root causes of economic displacement and migration by strengthening opportunities for workers and farmers to earn secure livelihoods at home, while also better protecting the rights of migrants.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 END GIVEAWAYS TO BIG TECH:<\/b> Eliminate \u201cdigital trade\u201d provisions that help Big Tech offshore digital economy jobs and undermine online privacy, data security, AI accountability and anti-monopoly policies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 END OTHER SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR CORPORATIONS:<\/b> Eliminate Investor-State Dispute Settlement and so-called Good Regulatory Practices provisions that help corporations undermine industrial and public interest policies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 EXPAND ACCESS TO MEDICINE:<\/b> Affirm governments\u2019 rights to use compulsory licensing to address public health needs and to negotiation for lower prescription medicine prices, while eliminating any \u201cTRIPS-plus\u201d provisions that establish special rights for pharmaceutical monopolies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 RESIST HIJACKING OF TRADE DEALS:<\/b> Don\u2019t allow unrelated demands on border militarization, territory grabs and other unjust and authoritarian policies to hijack trade negotiations.<\/p>\n

 \u00a0 EMBRACE TRANSPARENCY:\u00a0<\/b>Adopt a fully transparent and participatory negotiating process, including by making U.S. position proposals available for official public comment before tabling them and by publishing any composite negotiating texts between countries in near real-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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