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Washington, DC — Today, Rep. Rosa DeLauro introduced the Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution, a bill that would ensure U.S. trade policy boosts domestic manufacturing, protects safe, family-supporting jobs, and reduces pollution at home and abroad.
The resolution calls for robust environmental standards in trade agreements, strong enforcement mechanisms, and policies that reward responsible production instead of corporate pollution. The current trade policy standard allows corporations to shift production to places with weak environmental safeguards, which worsens pollution and climate-warming emissions globally.
This bill is especially relevant as the United States is in the process of renegotiating the trilateral trade agreement it has with Mexico and Canada, known as the USMCA, as well as discussing trade with our biggest global competitor, China, which has a history of unfair trade practices.
Sierra Club and partners have called on trade negotiators to make changes to the environmental chapter of USMCA, and more broadly in the agreement, to support the creation of a sustainable and resilient manufacturing sector. The proposed changes would protect the environment and the health of the public and workers.
