Food For People, Not Corporations!

For too long, U.S. trade policy has served billionaire CEOs and corporate interests at the expense of working families and farmers.

We have a rare opportunity to submit public comment on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

We need a trade agenda that rejects corporate interests and centers families, farmers, and workers. We need Fair Trade for Working Families.

Urge the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to embrace the Fair Trade for Working Families policy agenda as a blueprint for a more equitable trade agreement!

Under the USMCA, which governs trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, corporations have exercised extensive control over every step of our food supply chain, and many medium- and small-sized family farms have faced bankruptcy.

The Fair Trade for Working Families (H.Res. 1286) embraces mandatory country-of-origin labeling, monopoly-busting, and investment in small and mid-sized farms. Using this agenda as a blueprint, trade policy can make a shift from a corporate-centric approach to one that supports all North American families, farmers, and workers.

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Jamieson Greer, The

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Representative of the U.S

The Office of the Trade Representative to the United States

Jamieson Greer,

Office of the Trade

Representative to the U.S

The Office of the Trade Representative of the United States

Mr.

Daniel

O'Brien

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

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I urge the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative to use the U.S.-Mexico-Canada review process to determine whether the agreement is working for small and mid-sized farmers, workers, and families, and to renegotiate rules that are not.

Trade policy affects food prices, farm income, jobs, and who controls our food system. Yet the USMCA has done too little to combat rising food insecurity, farmer debt, and growing corporate control over food production and distribution. Expanding agricultural exports alone will not solve these problems.

The USTR should conduct and publicly release a study of the USMCA’s effects on food affordability, grocery prices, corporate consolidation, and whether small and mid-sized farms can cover their production costs and remain in business. The findings should guide the next phase of USMCA negotiations.

I also urge the USTR to use the Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution (H.Res. 1286) as a blueprint for reform. A fairer agreement should:

-- Restore, to the extent legally permissible, mandatory country-of-origin labeling (MCOOL), so consumers know where their food comes from and U.S. ranchers can compete fairly.
-- Strictly enforce anti-dumping regulations, rules against unfairly priced imports and prevent imports from undercutting U.S. farmers.
-- Enforce anti-monopoly laws and address corporate practices that raise grocery prices while pushing down the prices paid to farmers.
-- Prioritize small and midsize farmers, including the support of local and regional food infrastructure
-- Implement supply management policy to control overproduction and low farm prices
-- Protect food-system workers with fair wages and strong labor standards.

Trade policy should serve families, farmers, and workers — not just factory farms and corporate monopolies. I urge the USTR to renegotiate the USMCA toward a fairer, more transparent food system that provides food for people, not just profit for corporations.

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