Trade

Food and farm groups call for new NAFTA to address dumping and support farmers in all countries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2017 Contact: Josh Wise, 952-818-5474, jwise@iatp.org; Karen Hansen-Kuhn, 202-413-9533, khansenkuhn@iatp.org  

Counting the Costs of Agricultural Dumping

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USTR Overwhelmed by NAFTA Comments...Including Ours

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative scheduled one hearing for public input on the proposed renegotiation NAFTA. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Food & Water Watch (FWW), the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), the Rural Coalition and the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) jointly submitted comments to the U.S.

Comment on proposed renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement

June 12, 2017   Edward Gresser Chair of the Trade Policy Staff Committee Office of the United States Trade Representative 600 17th Street, N.W.  Washington, D.C. 20508   Comment on proposed renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement Docket No. USTR-2017-0006   Dear Mr. Gresser,

Trump’s agricultural trade policy with China: trade-offs or trade disputes?

With the U.S. confirmation of the Secretary of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) having taken place little more than a month ago, it may seem premature to write about the Trump administration’s agricultural trade policy. However, it appears that at least parts of this trade policy are occurring in trade-offs with China, outside traditional USTR and USDA channels.

Unraveling NAFTA: Civil Society Won’t Accept Toxic NAFTA, Will Organize Across Borders

Hundreds of activists and academics, union members and farmers, environmentalists and educators, came together last weekend in Mexico City for a major trinational conference on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Who Wins and Who Loses from U.S. Dumping of Corn

Agricultural “dumping” – the practice of exporting commodities at prices below the cost of production -- can be devastating for farmers in importing countries, especially in low-income countries with little power to use trade rules to defend their markets. It is unfair competition for producers in other exporting countries. And by encouraging overproduction in the U.S., it traps U.S.