<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1jf" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:360px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":1m4" aria-expanded="false"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For Immediate Release</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Contact: Arthur Stamoulis, (202) 494-8826 or<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:arthur@citizenstrade.org" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">arthur@citizenstrade.org</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><u>Press Statement:</u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:26pt">Trump’s Plan for the USMCA Review Should Be Made Public</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><span style="font-size:14pt">Public Deserves to Know How Proposed Changes Will Ensure that the President’s Signature Trade Deal Finally Delivers on Promised Benefits for Working Families</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Washington, D.C. — Citizens Trade Campaign, a coalition of labor and civil society organizations, is calling for the Trump administration to publicly release a statutorily-required report to Congress regarding its plan for the upcoming trinational review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and account for how proposed changes to USMCA will help turn around the pact’s flagging outcomes for working people.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">“The public deserves to know the President’s plan for ensuring his signature trade deal finally delivers its promised benefits to working families,” said Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of Citizens Trade Campaign, the U.S. coalition of labor, environmental, family farm, faith and consumer organizations working together since the original 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) debate to improve U.S. trade policy.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">“When he first signed the USMCA, President Trump promised it would bring jobs pouring into the United States. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Instead, five years in, good-paying jobs continue to be shipped to Mexico to take advantage of ongoing worker-rights abuses, lax pollution controls and abysmally-low wages and the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico is way up,” said Stamoulis. “Changes needed to turn that around include minimum wage standards and tougher labor and environmental enforcement measures, rather than the giveaways for Big Tech, Big Pharma and other corporate interests that have dominated the President’s recent trade announcements.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b>The USMCA — which replaced the NAFTA in 2020 — is the largest and most-comprehensive trade deal of President Trump’s presidencies to date. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rather than balance trade as promised, however, the cumulative U.S. trade deficit in goods with Mexico and Canada under the first five years under the USMCA is up 197.2% relative to the five years prior to the agreement taking effect — which is significantly higher than the increase in U.S. deficit with the rest of the world over the same period. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Critics also point to ongoing job offshoring under the agreement; wage stagnation and labor rights violations; and surges of imports into the United States<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span> of everything from automobiles to aerospace to agriculture.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The USMCA is currently entering a mandated six-year year review with the three parties required by July 1, 2026 to decide whether to extend it as-is, agree to amendments or continue the review and renegotiation process.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span> Parties have until 2036 to agree to extend the pact before it terminates. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Trump administration is required by law to notify Congress of its plans for the USMCA review within the coming weeks. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>As per the USMCA implementing legislation passed by Congress and signed by President Trump (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/statute/STATUTE-134/STATUTE-134-Pg11.pdf" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">113 U.S.C. § 611 (2020)</a>), the U.S. Trade Representative is required to report to appropriate Congressional committees at least 180 days before trinational review commences about “the precise recommendation for action to be proposed at the review and the position of the United States with respect to whether to extend the term of the USMCA.” <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>The deadline for that report is January 2, 2026. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In anticipation, civil society groups and policymakers have repeatedly reached out to the Trump administration with suggestions on what the USMCA review should prioritize:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>On June 12,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/USMCAReview_OrgSignOnLetter_061225.pdf" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">over 680 labor and civil society organizations</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer outlining key changes to the USMCA needed to “end the offshoring of good-paying jobs,” “raise wages across the region” and “strengthen rural communities.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>On November 3,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://delauro.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/delauro.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/delauro-usmca-letter-10.27.25.pdf" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">105 Congressional Democrats</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote to President Trump with their views on how to address the shortcomings of the 2020 agreement and deliver its promised benefits to the American people. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>The same day, members of the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://laborcaucus.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/laborcaucus.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/final-clc-usmca-joint-review-comment-letter-11.3.25.pdf" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">Congressional Labor Caucus</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>sent the U.S. Trade Representative a similar letter on how to the review process can “address the continued offshoring of good jobs and critical productive capacity.” Add Doggett enviro letter with 103 signers?<br><br></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Likewise in November, labor and civil society organizations collected<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-trumps-rigged-trade-deal-from-further-hurting-working-people/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">roughly 40,000 individual public comments</a>calling for the USMCA to be renegotiated in the interests of working people.<br><br></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="https://comments.ustr.gov/s/commentdetails?rid=WBP29Y7GR6" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">The Labor Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy (LAC)</a>,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://comments.ustr.gov/s/commentdetails?rid=3TBMQKBP7C" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">United Auto Workers</a>,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://comments.ustr.gov/s/commentdetails?rid=X3CRV3CJQC" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers</a>,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://comments.ustr.gov/s/commentdetails?rid=B43HDBRQQX" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">Public Citizen</a>,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://comments.ustr.gov/s/commentdetails?rid=9D6B9J27CX" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">Rethink Trade</a>,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://comments.ustr.gov/s/commentdetails?rid=BKH7GWJM8J" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy</a>,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://comments.ustr.gov/s/commentdetails?rid=3TBMQKBP7C" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">Sierra Club</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and many others have also submitted detailed public comments on necessary changes to the USMCA.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Recent<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://x.com/insidetrade/status/1998570987986489589" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">reports suggest</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>the Trump administration intends to share its USMCA review plans with Congress orally, but not to publish them in writing for public oversight.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">“For too long, trade agreements have been rigged in favor of billionaires and corporations. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>We look forward to a detailed and transparent USMCA review plan from the administration that articulates how the changes it proposes will benefit working people, family farmers and communities in all three countries,” said Stamoulis. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">###</p></div></div>