Green Party on Free Trade Party Platform

Trans-Pacific Partnership widens the wealth divide

Re-formulate trade agreements according to Fair Trade

Reject NAFTA, GATT, & WTO

• We reject trade agreements negotiated in secret and unduly influenced by corporate attorneys and representatives. In particular, we oppose the NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA), the GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT), and its progeny, the WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO). They threaten the constitutional power of Congress and local sovereignty, and they effectively limit the participation of citizens in decisions. Instead, they create administrative bureaucracies which will be run by corporate interests unaccountable to public input or even legal challenge.
• We demand that these agreements be updated to include more specific environmental, worker, health and safety standards in the text itself, not as “side agreements,” and full funding of existing environmental/health commitments.
• We reject any agreement which threatens the authority of states and local communities to establish more stringent health, safety and environmental standards.