Beto O’Rourke's trade plan calls on working with allies to curb China’s unfair trading practices
that on his first day in office, he would eliminate Trump’s tariffs on more than $500 billion worth of Chinese goods., but they must not be used as a threat to drive anti-immigrant agendas or in a way that causes further pain to American businesses and workers.”
O’Rourke, who represented El Paso, says he would create an independent commission to identify violations of labor and environmental standards to speed up how the U.S. processes such issues.House Democrats are currently considering the new North American trade pact and have been most concerned over the ability to enforce the agreement’s provisions on labor and environment in light of Mexico’s track record on workers rights.
His plan would allow the U.S. to remove preferential tariff treatment or block imports from facilities suspected of violating labor standards — a move that borrows from a recent proposal from Sens. Ron Wyden and Sherrod Brown to strengthen enforcement of the new NAFTA.
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