Gallego Calls for USMCA Deal that Puts Workers First

WASHINGTON –Today,Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)sent a letter to President Trump and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer laying out his priorities as the administration begins the mandatory six-year review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
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“I urge you to use this process as an opportunity to renegotiate aspects of the agreement to rebuild the U.S. manufacturing sector, strengthen border communities, and address the underlying causes of illegal migration to the United States,”Senator Gallego wrote.
He continues,“Thanks to industrial policy investments that I championed like the CHIPS and Science Act, Arizona is leading America’s manufacturing renaissance. The review of the USMCA is an opportunity to learn what has and has not worked with the revised NAFTA and to build on it. An updated agreement should create stable market conditions that promote investment in reshoring in the United States, halt the offshoring of good jobs, lift wages for both American and Mexican workers, and create more jobs in border communities.”
Specifically, Senator Gallego calls for renegotiation of the following aspects of the USMCA:
Read the full text of the letterHERE.
Senator Gallego is a champion for trade policies that protect workers, consumers, and small businesses while growing our economy. He has consistently called out this administration’s reckless and costly tariff policies that are focused on settling personal feuds, favoring specific companies, and benefitting friends and family rather than holding trade cheating countries accountable. He has also demandedhearingsandinvestigations,pushingto ensure that tariffs are not used as anexcuse to price gouge, and hasfought to ensurethat tariff exemptions actually result in lower prices. He also backs theLeveling the Playing Field 2.0 Actto push back against China’s anti-free market practices by providing the Department of Commerce with more tools to crack down on unfair trade practices that hurt American workers and businesses and recently led a bipartisan letter to the International Trade Commission urging enforcement regarding unfairly traded imports of steel reinforcing bar (“rebar”) undercutting Arizona workers.