Lori Wallach (@WallachLori), the Director and Founder of Global Trade Watch at Public Citizen, joins us to discuss the new NAFTA.
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Lori Wallach, the Director and Founder of Global Trade Watch at Public Citizen, joins us to break down what’s new in the new NAFTA, or the USMCA as it’s been called by Trump and his co-signers, and how it will alter the international trade regime. Under the banner of “free trade,” NAFTA limited the power of local governments to regulate business, as well as the power of workers to organize. USMCA is an improvement in some ways but worse in others. To track the upsides and downsides of “NAFTA 2.0,” visit www.replaceNAFTA.org.
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