HR 3012/S 2821 The TRADE Act

Summary: Two of Congress' leading fair-trade champions - Sen.Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine) - have worked with an array of labor, environmental, consumer, faith and family-farm organizations to develop legislation that offers a progressive path to a new trade and globalization policy. This initiative sets forth what we are for - what a good trade agreement must and must not include. Plus, it shuts down the bogus claim that we are anti-trade or have no alternative vision because we oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) & World Trade Organization (WTO) model that benefits the largest multinational corporations at the expense of workers, family farmers, food & product safety, the environment and human rights in the U.S. and around the world.

The TRADE Act requires a review of existing trade pacts, including NAFTA, the WTO and other major pacts, and sets forth what must and must not be included in future trade pacts. It also provides for the renegotiation of existing trade agreements and describes the key elements of a new trade negotiating and approval mechanism to replace Fast Track - the undemocratic negotiating system that go us into WTO and NAFTA - that would enhance Congress' role in the formative aspects of agreements and promote future deals that could enjoy broad support among the American public.

HR 3012/S 2821 makes sure that our current and future trade deals protect labor, the environment, and human rights, both in the United States and across the world.

Illinois Co-sponsors:

Jerry F. Costello (IL-12)

Danny K Davis (IL-7)

Luis V. Gutierrez (IL-4)

Phil Hare (IL17)

Jesse Jackson Jr. (IL-2)

Dan Lipinski (IL-3)

Bobby L. Rush (IL-1)

Jan Schakowsky (IL-9)

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For the text of HR 3012/S 2821 and a full list of co-sponsors, click here.

Public Citizen Trade Act Fact Sheet