Deciphering the Commerce Department’s April 2018 Release of Trade Balance Data  Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: U.S. trade data for the first four months of 2018 will be released by the U.S. Census Bureau Wednesday morning. Continuing its previous trend, the U.S.-China trade deficit is predicted to increase […]

The third round of renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement just concluded, and it’s still uncertain whether U.S. negotiators are going to demand the elimination of the contentious NAFTA provision that give big corporations vast powers making it easier for these corporations to offshore jobs and to attack the environmental and consumer safety […]

Renegotiating or replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement is an essential step in creating a global economy that benefits working families instead of just the favored corporate elites. The U.S. Labor Department has certified more than 75,000 livelihoods have already been lost to either direct offshoring or displacement by imports under just one since […]