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Archived Issues

Jobs, Wages and Economic Outcomes

Agriculture & Development

Learn more about how trade policies affect farmers and agricultural production around the globe.

Immigration

Learn more about the link between bad trade policies and our current immigration crisis.

Jobs & Wages

Learn more about how NAFTA, the WTO and other trade agreements destroy good jobs and exert downward pressure on wages.

Outsourcing

Learn more about how current trade policies encourage companies to send their production (and jobs) offshore.

Trade Deficit

Learn more about how our current policies are rapidly increasing an already enormous trade deficit.

Import Safety, Environment and Health

Environmental Sustainability

Learn more about how environmental protections and public health regulations are threatened by trade agreements.

Imported Food & Product Safety

Learn more about how trade agreements undermine the safety of imported food and products.

Sovereignty and Federalism in Trade Agreements

Dispute Resolution & Trade Tribunals

Learn more about the undemocratic trade tribunals that are empowered to overrule domestic law.

Standardization/Harmonization

Learn more about the trade agreement-enforced downward pressure on global standards and regulations.

State and Local Governance

Learn more about how trade agreements constrict state and local policymaking authority.

Chapter 11 Foreign Investor Protections

Learn more about the NAFTA “Chapter 11” model of radical private foreign investor protections.

Deregulation and Access to Services

Energy & Climate

Learn more about how energy and climate change policies are affected by restrictions in the WTO, NAFTA and similar trade agreements.

Environment & Zoning

Learn more about how environmental protections, land use and zoning policies are affected by restrictions in the WTO, NAFTA and similar trade agreements.

Financial Services

Learn more about how the radical deregulatory agenda of the WTO and other “trade” agreements has been a root cause of the current global financial crisis.

Health & Education

Learn more about how public health and higher education policies are affected by restrictions in the WTO, NAFTA and similar trade agreements.

WTO GATS

Learn more about the WTO’s General Agreement On Trade in Services (GATS).