Nancy L. Johnson: “Right, so if you had 100 percent tariffs, I do not care how good you were producing in the United States, you could not…”

“Right, so if you had 100 percent tariffs, I do not care how good you were producing in the United States, you could not sell in Mexico with 100 percent tariffs. Now, under NAFTA, Mexican tariffs have come way, way down. Yes, American tariffs have come down a little bit, too, but they were low to begin with. Now they are a little lower. Mexican tariffs were high to begin with. Now they are down low. Some of them are completely wiped out. One-half are wiped out. Others are there, but they are much smaller. So now you can sell into Mexico, and you can compete. You do not have to be there to produce. So lower tariffs means jobs stay in America. I gave you earlier that example of the Canadian company that got the big deal in Chile, though the American producer was lower cost and higher quality. But we did not have the tariff relief. We had to pay 11 percent tariffs. So we lost the deal. If we had the same tariff relief that Canada had had, if we had been able to be at the table and negotiate those tariffs down like Canada did, we would have gotten that order, and those orders feed jobs. So what is sad about this fast track deal is that those who oppose fast track think they are protecting American jobs when actually you protect American jobs by being at the negotiating table, opening markets and driving international standards to American standards, because American standards are higher in every area than most of the rest of the world. So if we can open markets, we can compete.”