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Merkley Statement on NAFTA Notification

Statement

Date: Aug. 31, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Affairs Trade

Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the Trump Administration formally notified Congress of its intent to sign a new NAFTA deal this year:
"For more than two decades, American jobs and American workers have suffered because of major imbalances in NAFTA. Our middle class desperately needs a better deal. However, the devil is in the details.
"Reportedly, this potential deal does include some positive steps, such as a more level playing field for auto manufacturing and an overdue reining-in of unaccountable corporate tribunals. However, the most essential component to create a level playing field is to have stronger environmental and labor standards, and--critically--for those standards to actually be enforceable. Right now, the reported enforcement deal in this agreement is insufficient. As this framework gets closer to potentially becoming a reality, we need full transparency and a fierce fight to strengthen these provisions that are key to the future of America's middle class."


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