Category: Trade Agreements
The Trump administration, with Democrats & AFLCIO leaders in tow, announced new final revisions and deal with Mexico on the new NAFTA 2.0 free trade agreement called the USMCA
David Kotz: Reinforcing the Trade War?Interview on how the U.S.’s hardened trade stance has nothing to do with human rights, despite new reports of the massive human rights violations of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China
A major feature of NAFTA was the requirement that Mexico strengthen and lengthen its patent and copyright protections. These barriers are 180 degrees at odds with expanding trade and removing barriers
Ignore Labor and Give Trump a Major Trade Deal
Trump Takes the Money and Runs
Trump’s trade wars are therefore best understood as a set of distractions. The end result doesn’t matter all that much to him politically, and is therefore not worth that much political risk
David Kotz: Roots of the U.S.-China Trade ConflictEvery day, the news brings more stories of U.S.-China tensions. What led to the U.S.-China trade conflict? And what would a U.S. pro-worker policy toward China look like?
Tom Conway: ‘New’ NAFTA Fails Workers On Both Sides Of BorderOver the past 20 years, the United States lost 5 million manufacturing jobs and nearly 90,000 factories. Some went to China or Vietnam or India. But a lot went to Mexico
Trade Negotiators Served Corporate Interests
Failing to get China to capitulate in trade talks this past July 31 by offering token changes to US offensive against Huawei and other China corporations, the US negotiating team returned empty handed from Shanghai. Trump immediately declared an additional 10% (going to 25% tariffs on remaining China imports to the US). The US-China trade Read more…