Add your name: Demand a NAFTA renegotiations benefit working people, not corporations

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer

The Trump administration officially notified Congress it will be renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

NAFTA made it easier for corporations to offshore jobs and to attack environmental, health, and other safeguards.

It killed jobs and depressed wages for millions. Hundreds of corporate advisors helped negotiate it behind closed doors.

Tell the U.S. Trade Representative now: Replace NAFTA with a deal that actually benefits working people in all three countries, not just multinational corporations.

If enough of us speak out, we can stop corporate elites from calling the shots and put an end to their rigged, devastating trade deals.

To: U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer
From: [Your Name]

Dear USTR Robert Lighthizer:

Your renegotiation of NAFTA is an opportunity to stop its ongoing damage and create a deal that benefits working people, not just big corporations.

That is why we call on you to meet these criteria in any new agreement with Canada and Mexico:

1. Institute a democratic, accountable, and transparent negotiating process without privileged backroom access for corporate interests.

2. Eliminate the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, which promotes job offshoring and gives multinational corporations power to sue the U.S. government before a tribunal of three corporate lawyers. These lawyers can order U.S. taxpayers to pay corporations unlimited sums of money, including for the loss of expected future profits.

3. Include strong and enforceable labor and environmental standards, not the ineffective rules found in deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

4. Require all imported food, goods and services in the agreement to meet strong domestic safety and environmental rules.

5. Eliminate rules that waive important Buy American and Buy Local policies.

6. Eliminate rules that drive up the cost of life-saving medicines by giving pharmaceutical companies extended monopolies on drug patents.