NAFTA II

With Passage Of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly In Mexico

January 22, 2020 By Manuel Perez-Rocha, Inequality.org Educate! Fossil Fuels, NAFTA II, Reform

NAFTA 2.0 cleared another hurdle on January 16 as the U.S. Senate approved the trade deal with bipartisan support. Officially called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the pact has some improvements but remains a handout to large corporations. This is particularly evident in the USMCA rules related to investor rights. One of the most controversial aspects of the original NAFTA was that it allowed private corporations to sue governments in international tribunals, demanding compensation for alleged violations of a wide range of investor “rights.”

Claims That The ‘NAFTA 2’ Agreement Is Better Is A Macabre Joke

January 21, 2020 Peter Dolack, Systemicdisorder.wordpress.com Educate! Canada, Mexico, NAFTA II, Trade Deal

Democratic Party House representatives have voted by a wide margin to approve version 2 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Even Rose DeLauro of Connecticut, in the past a strong leader within Congress in the fight against so-called “free trade” agreements, is on board with this one. Representative DeLauro and other congressional Democrats claim they forced the Trump administration to strengthen the agreement by compelling the insertion of language that allegedly creates “effective and meaningful labor standards and protect[s] worker rights”...

Levy, Garibay: ‘NAFTA 2.0’ Undermines Affordable Prescriptions

September 27, 2019 By Rick Levy and Montserrat Garibay, Riograndeguardian.com Educate! Canada, Mexico, NAFTA II, Trade Deal, United States, USMCA

If at first your eyes glaze over at mention of the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, aka “NAFTA 2.0”), it’s hard to blame you. Texans admire plain dealing and clear rules. Trade treaties like the original North American Free Trade Agreement operate in fine print, legal niceties and obscure power centers that can govern for years before you find out the rules are rigged against you. On the key topic of prescription drugs, the rules really are rigged against you, and if USMCA isn’t revised, it would only make matters worse. Texans know drugs cost too much.

Toward A Progressive Trade Agenda For People And Planet

August 3, 2019 Ethan Earle, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, and Scott Sinclair, Tradeforpeopleandplanet.org Create! Canada, Mexico, NAFTA II, Trade, United States

With ratification of NAFTA 2.0 still up in the air in the U.S. and Canada, a new international report contrasts the deeply flawed agreement with proposals for a more progressive and truly fair trade regime. “Beyond NAFTA 2.0: A Trade Agenda for People and the Planet” is jointly published in English and Spanish by the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), the Washington, D.C.–based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s New York office. It includes contributions from trade experts and activists from all three North American countries...

USMCA is Another Corporate Power Grab

March 1, 2019 By Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, Popular Resistance Resist! NAFTA, NAFTA II, Trade, USMCA

The path to creating a trade system that puts the necessities of the people and the protection of the planet before trade designed for transnational corporations begins with stopping Trump Trade, the NAFTA 2.0 referred to as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreements (USMCA). Many of the shortcomings of the original NAFTA remain and the reforms made are inadequate to warrant support for those who believe in fair trade that puts people and planet before corporate trade. The path to a trade regimen that we need begins by stopping Trump Trade.

More Than 70 U.S. Health, Consumer And Other Groups Demand Elimination Of NAFTA 2.0 Terms That Would Lock In High U.S. Medicine Prices

January 23, 2019 Eyes on Trade, Public Citizen Resist! Health Care, Medicine, NAFTA II

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After overwhelming public demand to reduce medicine prices helped propel Democrats to a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, today more than 70 U.S. organizations launched an effort to remove new monopoly protections for pharmaceutical firms added to the revised North American Free Trade Agreement. In a letter to Congress, the groups – representing tens of millions of Americans – demand that the pact’s giveaways to Big Pharma that would keep medicines unaffordable be removed before the pact is sent to Congress...

Time To Mobilize To Stop NAFTA II

December 17, 2018 Trade for People and Planet Resist! Corporate Trade, NAFTA II, Trade for People and Planet

Trump’s renegotiated NAFTA, which he attempts to rebrand as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), maintains the same failed model as NAFTA and even includes provisions from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Rebranding does not change that it favors big corporations at the expense of people and the planet. During negotiations, over 1,000 civil society groups outlined negotiation demands for the new NAFTA. Comparing the text to these demands, the agreement falls far short. This agreement should be rejected and replaced with a new model of trade that protects workers, the environment and democracy. We can stop NAFTA II.

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