On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
If USMCA doesn't pass--I have said this before--it would be a catastrophe across the country.
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Robert E. Lighthizer
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congress.govIf USMCA doesn't pass--I have said this before--it would be a catastrophe across the country.
Lighthizer warns of severe consequences if the USMCA trade agreement fails.
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In our view, you can't be in the position where we are the residual of Chinese state capitalism.
I think that too often we think of agriculture on the defense. The fact is that every place where we have a market, and we have a lot of them, the market could be much bigger.
The kind of rules we need, by the way, I would just point out, are in USMCA, right? That is, like, the gold standard for all of this stuff.
In addition to China we need to continue to move forward with USMCA, we need to bring down the 232 tariffs on Canada and Mexico.