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Trade Information 

The number of issues that spout from NAFTA and WTO style trade agreements can sometimes feel overwhelming but these issues (ranging from off-shoring to state procurement policies, from the environment to family farms and immigration) cannot be adequately addressed without understanding their common connection to failed trade. Citizens Trade Campaign, Public Citizen and other great organizations provide a variety of resources on many different trade issues. Below are some basic overviews of a number of different trade related issues. 

For further information we highly recommend checking out some of our favorite websites to your left. 

In solidarity, 

Your friendly neighborhood fair trade coalition. 

A New Way to do Trade: The TRADE Act

 Check out the Citizens Trade Campaign for the most recent information on the TRADE Act, articles and letters of support from national labor, environmental, family farm, faith and social justice organizations. 

Very brief overviews of trade-related issues: 

Overview of Free Trade and Economic Theory - CTC

Trade Deficit and Job Loss in Minnesota - MNFTC 

Offshoring and Outsourcing Jobs - CTC

Trade and Immigration - CTC 

Trade and Services - CTC

GATS Directory - Public Citizen 

Trade and Intellectual Property Rights - CTC 

States Rights and International Trade - Public Citizen

Trade and Global Warming - Sierra Club

Trade and Agriculture - CTC 

Trade and Women's Rights - CTC

Trade and Workers Rights - CTC

The US Trade Deficit: 

Think our trade policy is taking us in the right direction?  Well, think again, since 1991 the US has experienced exponential growth in its trade deficit. Click on the image for a bigger picture. 

What's Trade Got to do With It?: 

Public Citizen's Lori Wallach discusses what's so backwards about NAFTA-style trade agreements, how little they deal with actual trade and how much they deal with so many other non-trade related issues.  Click here to see the video. 

 

 

 

 

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