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NAFTA Renegotiation: What's at stake for food, farmers and the land?

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Trump's racist agenda is not fair trade

The racist and bigoted policies, statements, posture, and transparent intentions of the President of the United States Donald Trump are fueling the white supremacy movement. His racism and bigotry can and should be seen as building the conditions for the murder of one and deaths of three people in total last night in Charlottesville, Virginia.  

NAFTA: The Facts. An International Bill of Rights for Transnational Corporations

NAFTA renegotiation objectives fall short for farmers and the planet

The release of the Trump administration’s objectives for renegotiating NAFTA confirm the suspicions of fair trade advocates that President Trump would break his promise to create trade deals that are in the public interest. The negotiating objectives, which failed to incorporate input from civil society organizations despite detailed and extensive proposals, continue the administration’s trend of putting multinational corporations’ narrow interests first by using the same blueprint that shaped the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Candidate Trump railed against the TPP: Trum

Oral tesimony on NAFTA re-negotiation at USITC on June 27, 2017

Oral testimony by Juliette Majot, Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, on the proposed renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Presented to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Washington D.C., June 27, 2017.

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,

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).