<div dir="ltr"><br><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width:405pt"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 15pt 11.25pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img border="0" width="500" height="108" id="m_-8142840831595345555_x0000_i1032" src="https://static.politico.com/1a/81/b13dff1640e5983c0123b0e222a4/2024-newsletterlogo-pro-morningtrade.png" alt="POLITICO Pro's Morning Trade newsletter logo" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; width: 5.2083in; height: 1.125in;"><u></u><u></u></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in 15pt 7.5pt"><p align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(177,180,189);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.5pt">BY<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ahawkins@politico.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">ARI HAWKINS</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in 15pt"></td></tr><tr><td width="100%" style="width:540px;padding:0in 0in 7.5pt;min-width:100%"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:540px;background-color:rgb(18,21,34);min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 15pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:white;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.5pt">QUICK FIX<u></u><u></u></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in 15pt"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(183,0,0)">— T</span></b><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(183,0,0)">he nation’s largest labor federation will tell lawmakers today the United States</span></strong><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>shouldn’t “rubber-stamp” an extension of USMCA.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(183,0,0)">— The House on Wednesday voted to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(183,0,0)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">on Canada in a mostly symbolic move.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width:405pt"><tbody><tr></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in 15pt"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(183,0,0)">FIRST IN MORNING TRADE:</span></strong><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Testifying<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.6g0Zd3AyneOViJYBXgbV6wUoA_oOLwNGpMhiJUoRwjizP9zBTShtuf2wLmiSrvQ0mQ3idvC3kh-_Kyp7dRmMRYGB0QEvKqQzGRU7POSbJTHlU8vyMPsNLBocgGTOLvcwGZxNh1rp0eILJpQWl4jiINc6YrM8eOPUNmehpm0zDII/4o3/SejK_xP5SASMnDZzOI7qkg/h5/h001.vEzfFt9Re5BVzBuy7qjst_c5GEn0KsVFZ6rgtoPpaeU" target="_blank">before the Senate Finance Committee</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>this morning, a representative for the AFL-CIO will make it clear that the nation’s largest labor federation is not in favor of a 16-year extension of USMCA — at least "without major reforms.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">"More than five years since the USMCA entered into force, it is clear that the agreement is failing to deliver for workers in all three countries," policy specialist Eric Gottwald will tell lawmakers, according to a<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.lWesBdxv006jasBZWiiGk9P_ybPe2CGyS-6CLrg5BxZPvQGMwjrcav6he_y4b0PE03z5iZTdmM02c73C0-AI9CX0YRb4dqiWjd04P_RbRzBuLCCBCzZ6G-oOtNyD88fk/4o3/SejK_xP5SASMnDZzOI7qkg/h6/h001.ofFrb1_Ld7IqSWKt3PfnAk40P9_A3vBWSdq7fTFj-gs" target="_blank">copy of his opening statement,</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>obtained by Morning Trade.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Gottwald will add that a “rubber stamp” of the agreement is “not in the national interest,” echoing comments USTR Jamieson Greer made in his testimony to Senate Finance in December. Greer had claimed at the time that the U.S. would only recommend renewal of the deal if a<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-sp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