Urge your representatives to Get US Out! of NAFTA & USMCA (clean thread)

[Zippyjuan]

Congress cannot modify the treaty. They can only vote for or against it as written. If they reject it, the US can try to re-open the treaty negotiations to try to get changes which could help it pass (which the other parties would also have to agree to).

 

[Swordsmyth]

Congress cannot modify the treaty. They can only vote for or against it as written. If they reject it, the US can try to re-open the treaty negotiations to try to get changes which could help it pass (which the other parties would also have to agree to).

Which makes it all the easier to kill because Mexico and Canada won't renegotiate.

 

[Swordsmyth]

On Thursday June 20, 2019, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Washington DC for a meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and democrat leadership. After the political ideologues held the meeting, Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the Canadian ratification on the USMCA trade agreement.

More at: https://theconservativetreehouse.co...ls-democrats-plan-to-block-trump-trade-reset/

 

[Swordsmyth]

https://www.ft.com/content/56077fc2-ca73-11e9-a1f4-3669401ba76f

 

[enhanced_deficit]

This is a horrid treaty. I hope Rand can get to him on it, or this may be a deal killer for me. Lighthizer is a CFR globalist tool.

To be devil's advocate, if this treaty is so horrid, why senior White House advisors that MAGA POTUS frequently admires see it differently? You don't buy argument of MAGA supporters that globalists have been appointed by this America-First POTUS to put them in their place through 3D chess?

How Trump's son-in-law helped salvage the North American trade zone

“I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, this agreement would not have happened if it wasn’t for Jared,” Lighthizer told reporters.


(Reuters) - Robert Lighthizer was the public face of arduous, year-long talks to rework NAFTA, but as he savored a successful conclusion in the White House Rose Garden on Monday, the U.S. trade representative singled out another man as the deal’s architect.

The 70-year-old veteran negotiator was referring to Jared Kushner, more than 30 years his junior and Donald Trump’s son-in-law, whom the president had asked to help out on trade early in the presidency, especially on Canada and Mexico.

While Kushner’s time in the White House has been turbulent - Chief of Staff John Kelly temporarily stripped him of his security clearance this year and he has been criticized for his dealings with the Middle East - his role in keeping the North American Trade Agreement afloat was fundamental, multiple sources said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-the-north-american-trade-zone-idUSKCN1MC04M



But in case this is not 3D chess, gressroots would have to work harder than MAGA appointed senior White House advisors to convince their Reps to take a stand against MAGA's inner circle.. although in the past some had called that 'political suicide'. Steve Bannon was not elected Reps of conservatives but he was made an example when he went against MAGA's senior White House advisors like NAFTA savior Jared.

 

[Swordsmyth]

President Trump raised concerns that Congress may not approve the new North American Free Trade Agreement, now that the House has launched an impeachment inquiry.

“I don’t know if Nancy Pelosi is going to have any time to sign [the USMCA] — that’s the only problem,” said President Trump on Wednesday. He went on to say Pelosi is wasting time with a “manufactured crisis.”

Approving the new deal — known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — before the end of the year has been one of the administration’s top priorities.
“If it happens, it happens. Otherwise, when we take over the House next year we’ll do it our way,” said Trump.


At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, a reporter asked President Trump if he would end NAFTA if USMCA doesn’t make it through Congress.
“I don't want to answer that question, but you know how I feel about NAFTA. I think NAFTA is the worst trade deal ever made,” Trump replied. “We’re gonna find out. That’s going to be a very interesting question.”

More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-could-kill-the-usmca-233627048.html

 

[Swordsmyth]

President Trump raised concerns that Congress may not approve the new North American Free Trade Agreement, now that the House has launched an impeachment inquiry.

“I don’t know if Nancy Pelosi is going to have any time to sign [the USMCA] — that’s the only problem,” said President Trump on Wednesday. He went on to say Pelosi is wasting time with a “manufactured crisis.”

Approving the new deal — known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — before the end of the year has been one of the administration’s top priorities.
“If it happens, it happens. Otherwise, when we take over the House next year we’ll do it our way,” said Trump.


At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, a reporter asked President Trump if he would end NAFTA if USMCA doesn’t make it through Congress.
“I don't want to answer that question, but you know how I feel about NAFTA. I think NAFTA is the worst trade deal ever made,” Trump replied. “We’re gonna find out. That’s going to be a very interesting question.”

More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-could-kill-the-usmca-233627048.html

 

[Swordsmyth]

The leader of a U.S. congressional delegation to Mexico said on Tuesday that Mexico must take more concrete steps to implement its labor reform, after a trip aimed at speeding up ratification of the new North American free trade deal.Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed union freedoms, higher wages and other labor rights in his bid to assuage the concerns of U.S. congressional Democrats, who hold the key to ratifying the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
But as he concluded his visit to Mexico, Richard E. Neal, who leads the Ways and Means Committee in the United States' lower house of Congress, suggested Democrats were still not satisfied.
"Our meeting with President Lopez Obrador shed further light on the Mexican government's desire and intentions to carry out its labor justice reform, but the United States needs to see those assurances put into action," Neal said in a statement.
It was unclear precisely what steps Neal would like to see.


Mexico's Congress has already approved the deal. It also needs ratification from Canadian lawmakers.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters the next three weeks would be a "decisive phase" for the pact, and that officials would send U.S. lawmakers a document next week detailing the issues discussed on Tuesday, including Mexico's labor reform.

Democrats are seeking better mechanisms in the trade agreement to ensure enforcement of labor and environmental provisions. One measure under consideration is providing aid to Mexico to beef up enforcement of labor rules.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-president-calls-usmca-ratification-132559399.html

 

[r3volution 3.0]

I'm so glad that Trump managed, after immense regime uncertainty, to negotiate a deal that's almost identical to the status quo.

...his reality TV "not a politician" skills really proved useful.

...what a (stable) genius.

...how wonderful that the electorate had faith in him.

 

[angelatc]

I'm so glad that Trump managed, after immense regime uncertainty, to negotiate a deal that's almost identical to the status quo.

...his reality TV "not a politician" skills really proved useful.

...what a (stable) genius.

...how wonderful that the electorate had faith in him.

It's 4D chess. He's acting like the Deep State in order to trick the Deep State into exposing themselves. And then...he will whack their pee-pees.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

It's 4D chess. He's acting like the Deep State in order to trick the Deep State into exposing themselves. And then...he will whack their pee-pees.

Undoubtedly..

 

[enhanced_deficit]

[h=3]Trump urges Congress to vote on USMCA[/h]October 21, 2019
President Trump on Oct. 21 said that the U.S. trade agreement with Mexico and Canada needs to be voted on, adding that "it's going to be very bipartisan."

 

[Swordsmyth]

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer faced pushback and a “bucket full” of questions Thursday during a closed-door caucus lunch meeting meant to sell Senate Republicans on the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico.

Republican senators stressed that they expect the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will have the votes to pass the Senate, but acknowledged there was still opposition within the caucus and broader frustration with how the trade negotiations had been handled.
“There’s some opposition to some pieces of it, as you might imagine,” Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) told reporters after the lunch.


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said the Senate will not take up the trade deal until next year after the chamber finishes an expected impeachment trial for President Trump.
“From my perspective, it’s not as good as I had hoped," McConnell told reporters during a weekly press conference Tuesday.
But GOP senators indicated after the Lighthizer meeting that there are concerns about the process for how the trade deal will move through the Senate.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a top adviser to McConnell, said he did not expect the Senate Finance Committee to have a mock markup of the trade deal, which under previous agreements would allow them to suggest changes that could be worked in to a final proposal.
“It’s a bad practice and I don’t think the Senate should just quietly agree to be jammed in the process,” Cornyn said, adding that it was a “lousy way to treat the Senate.”
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said he had also heard the Senate Finance Committee would not be holding a mock markup of the trade deal.
“We have to have an opportunity to weigh in on that,” Toomey said. “This is a problem.”
Toomey said he raised his concerns with Lighthizer during the lunch and at two separate meetings with Senate Finance Republicans.
When asked if he spoke directly to Lighthizer about his concerns, Toomey said: "I did. In fact, I raised them at the meeting we had before the lunch and I raised them on the phone call the day before that."

More at: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/474344-lighthizer-fails-to-quell-gop-angst-on-trade-deal

 

[presence]

Trump said the trade rules before NAFTA "work very well."

Lets be real... trade rules prior to the Navigation Acts of 1651 were the only one's that worked at all.

Everything since then; sans that joyous moment of laughter in 1765...

nothing more than a subtle variants of state mafia racketeering.

 

[Origanalist]

It's 4D chess. He's acting like the Deep State in order to trick the Deep State into exposing themselves. And then...he will whack their pee-pees.

You're dating yourself with that term Angela....

 

[acptulsa]

You're dating yourself with that term Angela....

Which one? "4D Chess"?

 

[Swordsmyth]

Mexico's deputy foreign minister, Jesus Seade, said on Saturday he sent a letter to the top U.S. trade official expressing surprise and concern over a labor enforcement provision proposed by a U.S. congressional committee in the new North American trade deal.Top officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States on Tuesday signed a fresh overhaul of a quarter-century-old deal, aiming to improve enforcement of worker rights and hold down prices for biologic drugs by eliminating a patent provision.
How labor disputes are handled in the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal was one of the last sticking points in the negotiations between the three countries to overhaul the agreement.
Intense negotiations over the past week among U.S. Democrats, the administration of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump, and Mexico produced more stringent rules on labor rights aimed at reducing Mexico's low-wage advantage.
However, an annex for the implementation of the treaty that was presented on Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives proposes the designation of up to five U.S. experts who would monitor compliance with local labor reform in Mexico.
"This provision, the result of political decisions by Congress and the Administration in the United States, was not, for obvious reasons, consulted with Mexico," Seade wrote in the letter. "And, of course, we disagree."


The letter, released on Saturday, is dated Friday and addressed to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. Seade said he would travel to Washington on Sunday to raise the issues directly with Lighthizer and lawmakers.
"Unlike the rest of the provisions that are clearly within the internal scope of the United States, the provision referred to does have effects with respect to our country and therefore, should have been consulted," Seade wrote.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-objects-labor-enforcement-provision-215243615.html

 

[angelatc]

Which one? "4D Chess"?

I suspect it's the Cheech & Chong reference.

 

[CCTelander]

I suspect it's the Cheech & Chong reference.

I thought that was Paul Reubens (AKA Pee-wee Herman).

ETA: My bad. Cheech and Chong did indeed originate that phrase. I feel old.

 

[angelatc]

I thought that was Paul Reubens (AKA Pee-wee Herman).

I had to search to be sure. One from the vaults: Trippin' In Court