NAFTA

Hopes for new beginnings on US trade policy

This article first appeared as part of the "On the Precipice: The Progressive Agenda in the Biden Era" for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office. 

Multinational corporations already using new NAFTA to block action on plastics

The bully in the lunchroom: The U.S. moves to weaken Mexico’s new junk food labeling law

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In advance of Thursday vote, leading farm, food and public health groups call on Congress to reject USMCA

WASHINGTON—Congress is expected to vote Thursday on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) or New NAFTA.

New NAFTA is Lost Opportunity to Reform Corporate Trade Deals

Deal Does Not Address the Farm Crisis, But Will Exacerbate Climate Crisis and Jeopardize Health and Public Safety

NAFTA's empty promises

Originally published in The Storm Lake Times and The Progressive Populist. 

Midwest Family Farm Groups Travel to Washington to Talk NAFTA, Farm Crisis

Press Release October 23, 2019 Contact: Ben Lilliston, 6128703416, ben@iatp.org Midwest Family Farm Groups Travel to Washington to talk NAFTA, Farm Crisis

Getting smarter, not ‘tougher,’ about trade policy

A mid-August New York Times article framed the debate about trade policy in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary race as one of being ‘tougher than Trump.’ To develop trade policy that chases that meme will play into th