NAFTA

Uprooted Episode 33: The NAFTA Endgame

Today, May 17th, is the deadline set by House Speaker, Paul Ryan, to have a NAFTA agreement on paper for Congress to take it up in 2018. Earlier this week, Josh talked with Sharon Treat and Karen Hansen-Kuhn about what the endgame might be for NAFTA and if anyone actually knows what is happening in this incredibly secretive process. 

NAFTA 2.0: New genetic engineering techniques and agricultural trade

Industry demands that NAFTA 2.0 'does no harm' to U.S. exports. But go a step further, intending to force other governments to accept genetically engineered agricultural exports that have not been risk assessed in the importing nation.

Maine State Legislators Endorse Removing ISDS from NAFTA

The Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission, a legislator-run, bipartisan governmental body, recently sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in strong support of his focus on limiting the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, and calling for ISDS to be removed in its entirety from NAFTA.

New Fact Sheet on NAFTA 2.0, Junk Food Labeling and Public Health

NAFTA renegotiations are rumored to be coming to a close. But while the texts remain secret, the junk food industry has pushed for provisions that could derail efforts in the U.S., Canada and Mexico to tackle the obesity crisis.

Uprooted Episode 28: Your right to know - Labeling and NAFTA 2.0

This week we're talking about labeling, and the attempt to ban it, in trade agreements. Josh talks with Sharon Treat about why multinational corporations seek to undermine public health protections through the trade negotiating process, what the history of challenging food labeling has been, and what the heck is going on with NAFTA renegotiation these days. 

NAFTA: New protections for "Too Big to Fail" Banks

The revision of NAFTA would provide Wall Street with new means to attack Dodd-Frank, not only via their allies in Congress, but by filing lawsuits from their subsidiaries in Canada and Mexico.

With labeling plan leaked, what else lurks in Trump's NAFTA?

After a horrifying, junk food labeling provision was leaked from NAFTA renegotiations, we must demand transparency to know what else is being discussed behind closed doors.

Got Too Much Steel? Too Much Milk?

President Trump's tariffs are a partial and short-term solution to a real problem. The larger issue is dumping goods below cost-of-production in other countries.