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The US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) mandatory review:
Farmers Across North America Demand Transparency and Justice in Trade Negotiations
We join a coalition of over 600 labor and civil society groups calling for significant changes to the USMCA that support human rights, sustainability, and fair and transparent markets. We urge the White House to abandon a decades-long neoliberal agenda that has harmed rural communities in the United States, and our neighbors in Mexico and Canada.
Since the days of NAFTA, NFFC has sounded the alarm on free trade agreements, which have increasingly favored billionaires and multinational corporations over the rights of working Americans. By flooding markets with cheap goods and industrialized food, these export-driven policies wreak havoc on the once-thriving communities that rely on small-scale agriculture. When institutions like the World Trade Organization are captured by agribusiness interests, companies are emboldened to ignore antitrust laws, labor laws, human rights, and fair and transparent practices.
There is nothing free about free trade agreements, except that they give corporations a free pass to exploit consumers, the planet, and the workers and farmers who are the backbone of our economy.
While the USMCA enters a mandatory review period, NFFC continues to warn against the unfair policies at the foundation of this far-reaching trade deal. In collaboration with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC), we identified 3 key areas where USMCA renegotiation could support family farmers.
We urge our elected officials to advance trade justice for farmers and our allies - reform the USMCA and protect our communities from corporate domination!
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