Specifically, CAFTA brazenly requires the executive branch of the United States Government, as well as this Congress, our State Governors, State legislators, and even local authorities to conform all existing and future Federal, State, and local laws to a new set of international statutes and standards that go beyond trade matters.
I have heard similar arguments with respect to some of the other agreements we are involved in. Since there are over 1000 pages, could someone point me to the section that requires this?
I have not read the agreement, but there are a number of statements made by the speaker that I would like to actually see in writing.
Every trade agreement has to have some method of issue resolution. I heard the many cries of horror for NAFTA, but have somehow missed all of the horrors that eminated from it. To the best of my knowledge, anything that Congress finds objectionable under any trade agreement (including the free flow of trucks) can be handled with legislation. Congress does not act, but merely expresses concern. Apparently these concerns are not so substantial after all.
No trade agreement can dictate how Congress or any state does its business and frames its laws, except as it may involve specific trade issues.
But I have not read it. To those who have, please educate me.
And even those can be aborted if Congress and the President decide to. The biggest objection voiced on these threads is that we are giving up our sovereignty to foreign powers. That is total BS.
Even now we are in disagreements with the WTO. We have the choice to accept their rulings or not to, but the choice is ours and it is a choice Congress will make. No foreign power controls us.
Most opponents, imo, are backers of unions and others who can't stand the heat of competition. When they scream about all the harm these agreements are going to cause and you ask them to explain our present economy, they change the subject.
Same with those who fret over our trade with China.