105 members of Congress, led by Rep.DeLauro, are demanding a USMCA that puts people over profit, stronger labor protections, and eliminates ISDS corporate courts. It’s time to rewrite the deal for workers, farmers, and communities, not Big Tech and corporate interests.

This is BIG -- Rep Doggett and 100+ reps demand full elimination of the ISDS provisions in the USMCA. ISDS empowers corporations to sue governments and get taxpayer money over health, environmental, and other laws they don't like. It's a total scam, and it's on it's way OUT!

Trade agreements must not stand in the way of health and access to medicines. USMCA must be revised to remove extreme intellectual property provisions that keep medicine prices high, discourage competition, and ultimately impede access to medicine.

100+ members of Congress plus hundreds of labor, environmental, health, faith, farmer & migrant justice orgs are demanding a complete overhaul of the USMCA. The message is clear: trade policy must serve people and the planet, not corporate profits. 🌎

Trade and migration are deeply connected. The USMCA must stop fueling displacement and start prioritizing sound immigration policy, human rights, and labor protections. Along with prominent migrant justice groups, we outline how in new comments to USTR.

Trump’s biggest trade deal — the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement #USMCA, aka NAFTA 2.0 — has failed to deliver on its promised benefits to working people and family farmers. Demand a replacement deal that puts people over profits!

Today, we submitted comments to @USTradeRep calling for a complete shift in U.S. trade policy away from corporate dominance & toward workers, consumers, and the planet. 🌍

Trump’s trade deals with Malaysia and Cambodia achieve a new level of imperialist bullying and gift massive handouts to Big Tech and other corporate interests. Some top takeaways below⬇️

In a rare bipartisan move, the Senate rightly rejected Trump’s fraudulent national emergency declaration targeting Brazil. While this move is positive, our Director, Melinda St. Louis, calls out the House Republicans continuing to use procedural B.S to avoid taking a stand on Trump’s tariffs.⬇️

AI regulations, anti-monopoly laws, regulation of electronic payments, privacy and data protection… What do they have in common? They're all on Big Tech’s hit list.

Their profits rise with every deportation. Human suffering has become a revenue stream.

Corporate fat cats love the #USMCA — and now Trump’s billionaire friends are trying to make it even sweeter for themselves with new giveaways that hurt workers, farmers, and the environment across North America. We’ve got 10 DAYS to push back, submit your public comment today!

Guess what? Trump and Big Tech are rewriting global trade rules in secret. Here’s what’s at stake. 🔍

The internet broke yesterday. It wasn’t just an outage; it was monopoly power on full display. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) crashed, banks, social media apps, and even government websites went dark.

The National Trade Estimates Report is a Big Tech wish list in a boring disguise. Instead of respecting countries’ right to regulate for privacy, competition, or AI safety, Trump’s trade office labeled such public-interest laws as “unfair trade barriers.”

Trump’s “trade policy” apparently means handing the NRA and gunmakers a global payday at the expense of public safety and human rights. Removing basic safeguards to stop gun exports to drug cartels and terrorist groups? What could possibly go wrong?

People detained in Trump’s immigration raids are forced to cook, clean, and scrub toilets for $1 a day while GEO Group and CoreCivic earn billions in taxpayer contracts. Stop believing this is about security. It’s about corporate profits.

Trump’s trade chaos isn’t random; it’s a shakedown for Big Tech. Every tariff threat and secret “deal” he makes is pressuring countries to drop privacy, AI, and digital tax rules that Big Tech doesn’t like.

Trump’s trade deal with Mexico and Canada has failed, and this is our chance to demand real change. The USMCA must protect workers, strengthen unions, and put people and the planet before corporate greed. Lobbyists are already swarming — we need to get loud!

Trump’s trade chaos isn’t random — there’s a method to the madness. Behind the tariff tantrums and “America First” bluster lies a clear agenda: helping Big Tech deregulate the world.

Instead of creating good jobs and rebuilding U.S. manufacturing, Trump keeps cutting backroom trade deals that reward Big Tech and Wall Street. Help ensure a renegotiated deal gets better, not worse!

“Free trade” is over, but what comes next is up for debate. In light of the upcoming USMCA renegotiation, we spent the summer sorting through NAFTA’s real legacy: destabilizing communities on both sides of the U.S. border. Read more here! www.citizen.org/article/not-...

Getting rid of NAFTA’s broken legacy won’t be easy and definitely won’t happen by asking foreign leaders to fast-track a golf course in exchange for tariff exemptions.

No word yet from the Commerce Department investigation of tariffs on medicines. But that hasn’t stopped Trump from putting 100% tariffs on patented pharmaceutical products starting next week, unless drug companies are building manufacturing plants in the U.S.

Iza Camarillo, our research director, will be discussing the state of green jobs at the Green Jobs Pavilion 2025 with @greenjobsboard.bsky.social during #ClimateWeekNYC! You don’t want to miss this! 📅 TOMORROW! Tues, Sept 23 ⏰11:00 AM EST 📍Online or at 445 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001

Our Research Dir., Iza Camarillo, will be speaking on a panel about global trade, critical minerals, and ISDS with @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social and @resourcejustice.bsky.social during #ClimateWeekNYC. 📅TOMORROW! Tues, Sept 23 ⏰2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

House Republicans are doing Olympic-level gymnastics to avoid standing up to Trump’s tariffs. Congress must uphold its duty against a president with zero regard for constitutional authority. NEW ➡️ support bipartisan legislation to end Trump's emergency declaration on Brazil.

NEW: Big Tech gave Trump more than $1,000,000,000, now he’s pushing their trade agenda worldwide. Behind closed doors, lobbyists named the digital rules they want dismantled—Trump faithfully obeyed. See which countries are in their crosshairs 👇

Our DTA Research Dir. Rishab Bailey is joining an important discussion about minerals, trade, and digital policy space for the Global South TODAY alongside Abhijit Das, Sanya Reid Smith, H.E. Achsanul Habib, and Rahmat Maulana Sidik from @IGJ2012. #WTOPublicForum

Our DTA Research Dir. Rishab Bailey is looking forward to speaking on minerals & digital trade TODAY alongside @SofiaScasserra, Lynn Boylan, Sanya Reid Smith, and Abhijit Das. #WTOPublicForum

🚨NEW MAP: When the administration was creating its global tariff agenda, Big Tech lobbyists made their demands known. The tech industry urged Trump to target more than 100 laws in 40 countries. On privacy, anti-monopoly, anti-hate speech, and other tech accountability rules.

Globalization’s “winners and losers” story isn’t just history — we’re watching it happen in real time. @davidjlynch.bsky.social’s piece is a reminder: without real worker protections and global equity, upheaval is inevitable.

🚨 Happening today: Our Director, Melinda St.Louis, is testifying before the USTR in the Section 301 Investigation of Brazil. We’re exposing this sham investigation, and she’ll be live-tweeting straight from the hearing. Follow along on Twitter (@MelindaPubCit)!

📢 In a 7-4 ruling, a federal appeals court struck down President Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping, “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. Statement from our Director 👇

Every worker, everywhere. Full stop. This Labor Day, let’s keep organizing for the world we deserve.

Today’s “deal” with the EU is just more smoke, mirrors, grand gestures, fake commitments, and fossil fuel pledges for show to keep Trump appeased. The real danger is the backroom talks fueling Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Oil.

USTR’s investigation into Brazil is a smokescreen to justify Trump’s illegal tariffs and protect Big Tech’s enormous profits. We joined @dataprivacybrasil.bsky.social to tell USTR: stop using trade as a political weapon!

Since 1995 💁‍♀️

Trump’s tariffs on South Africa aren’t just about trade — they’re a pressure tactic to roll back racial equity laws passed to undo apartheid’s legacy.

Still waiting for someone to explain how punishing Brazil helps U.S. workers… Because all we see is Trump weaponizing tariffs to defend Bolsonaro and help Meta and X avoid regulation. 🤷

New from @politico.com 52 House Democrats demand transparency and meaningful engagement on secretive negotiations over a critical minerals trade agreement with the DRC, particularly in light of not only the human rights and environmental crises, but the apparent conflicts of interest.

Trump just created a tariff loophole that benefits his buddy, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and maybe even his own Trump Mobile cell company. We predicted months ago that, once again, Trump’s tariff exemption process would become a spoils system to reward the rich and well-connected.

“A functioning democracy cannot exist without immigrant justice.” 👂 to @npnewamericans.bsky.social’s Nicole Melaku.

Countries are promising vague and sometimes impossible “investment pledges” to appease Trump and avoid tariffs. Loans, wishlists, and PR promises ≠ actual deals.

Trump’s tariffs are just a con. He’s weaponizing the real anger that people have about the status quo free-trade regime to claim he’s upending things. But his real goal is an authoritarian power grab.

🚨Must read from @ddayen.bsky.social :Trump’s tariffs aren't about economic strategy, they’re about Trump’s desires and corporate whims. Our Director, Melinda St. Louis, says, “we are seeing him double down on this corporate-rigged trade model.”

Some good background on the Brazil tariffs and today’s big tariff deadline from our director on air with Ian Masters. Take a listen! 👂

We're hours away from Trump's arbitrary trade deadline. It's about to be crystal clear that Trump's "deals" are BS. His trade policy is an authoritarian power grab to help serve Big Tech and corporations. His senseless tariffs are NOT helping working people.

Trump just ordered huge tariffs on over 67 countries starting next week—many even higher than what he announced in April. Our Director, Melinda St. Louis, calls it "perverting the concept of 'national emergency' to advance his authoritarian power grab." Full statement 👇

Trump just declared a “national emergency” to hit Brazil with huge tariffs — all to protect Bolsonaro & Big Tech. This is authoritarianism disguised as trade policy. 🎥 Watch our explainer: what’s really going on + why it matters.