<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Trade Update Call with the AFL-CIO’s Celeste Drake</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b style="" class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Last month, the President announced a global tariff on steel and aluminum imports and retaliatory tariffs on<span class=""> </span></span></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Chinese</font><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> imports to compensate for China's theft of U.S.-owned intellectual property. Wall Street's hair is on fire and pundits keep trying to scare working families with the<span class=""> </span></span></font><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">specter</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> of a trade war, but the truth is that tariffs are a necessary tool of trade enforcement designed to protect U.S. economic and national security. </span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b style="" class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height:14.72px;background-color:rgb(249,203,156)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class=""><font style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""></font></span></font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Last week, the President announced a minor renegotiation of the Korea FTA. Although it contains a tariff extension on light trucks and a hard cap on Korean steel exports to the United States, both of which will help protect U.S. jobs, it also included a giveaway to Big Pharma and failed to address the important issues of labor, investment, and rules of origin. </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400" class="">Meanwhile,</span><font class=""><b class=""> </b>t</font><b style="font-weight: 400;" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;display:inline" class=""><b style="" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;display:inline" class="">he Administration is rushing to finish NAFTA renegotiations. We continue to advocate that <b style="" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;display:inline" class="">NAFTA renegotiation must not put labor rights in the backseat while putting corporate interests up front.</div></b></div></b></div></b></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><b style="font-weight: 400;" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;display:inline" class=""><b style="" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;display:inline" class=""><b style="" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:400;display:inline" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div></b></div></b></div></b></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Please join AFL-CIO Trade & Global Policy Specialist Celeste Drake for a briefing on the latest on trade policy this week. Here are the details:</font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><b class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Trade Campaign Conference Call Briefing</font></b></div><div style="text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Thursday, April 12 | 7pm ET</font></div><div style="text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Dial-in: 888-251-2909<br class="">Access Code: 6375344</font></div></span></span></div><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">(An online component--either Facebook Live or Google Hangout will likely be added after Beta testing. If we add such a component, we will send an updated notice.)</div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><div id="gmail-m_-8376671917232480463WISESTAMP_SIG_6360a054348e31b3cd6e089bbe012a15" title="WISESTAMP_SIG_6360a054348e31b3cd6e089bbe012a15" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><div class=""><table class="gmail-m_-8376671917232480463main_html gmail-m_-8376671917232480463date__2018_04_10___13_50" style="max-width:600px;direction:ltr"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px" class=""><table class="gmail-m_-8376671917232480463html gmail-m_-8376671917232480463wisestamp_app gmail-m_-8376671917232480463new_10 gmail-m_-8376671917232480463main_sig" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:440px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-bottom:8px"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="display:inline-flex" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;vertical-align:top" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td valign="top" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;vertical-align:top;padding-left:12px" class=""><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class=""><tbody class=""><tr style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding-bottom:7px" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="line-height:1.6;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:rgb(78,75,76);padding-left:2px;font-weight:normal;width:326px" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family:sans-serif;color:rgb(69,102,142);padding:0px;margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold" class="">Celeste Drake</span><br class=""><span style="color:rgb(69,102,142);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px" class="">Trade Policy Specialist</span><span class=""> </span><span style="color:rgb(69,102,142);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px" class="">at <span class=""> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(69,102,142);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px" class="">AFL-CIO</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>
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