Xavier Becerra: “Under this TPA, we can't ask those questions. We won't be able to find out where a product is made because someone…”

“Under this TPA, we can't ask those questions. We won't be able to find out where a product is made because someone else--a tribunal, not an American court--will decide whether we can label a product as made in the USA or not. Right now, these international tribunals that have no American jurists or judges sitting on them get to decide for us if Americans should have the right to know where a product is coming from that they are buying from a store in their neighborhood. How does that lead to making sure trade is free and fair if we can't even put a label on a product coming from some other country that has in the past sent us tainted products? We can do much better. We have over two or three decades of experience in writing trade deals. We know what works; we know what doesn't. The thing we know most is that enforcement is the most difficult aspect of trade because most companies in faraway places don't follow American law and American rules and they cheat and they think they think can get away with it. We can do much better. Let's get a better trade deal that is free and fair. This TPA doesn't give us that. It doesn't give us the right rules. Reject this TPA legislation.”