House Lawmakers Push Commerce Secretary for Transparency During NAFTA Talks
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers urged Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in a letter sent this week (here) to be open and transparent with the public during the upcoming NAFTA renegotiation, saying that’s the only way the American public will…
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have confidence in the deal and others in the future. “The NAFTA renegotiation process, and any other trade negotiation, must be transparent and involve broad stakeholder participation -- unlike the opaque and interest group-dominated negotiations that produced NAFTA” in the 1990s, the letter says. The lawmakers encouraged the Trump administration to make negotiated texts public during talks, with opportunity for comment after each negotiation round.