Our trade system itself creates an incentive to compete by maintaining lower environmental standards, or worse yet, by lowering those standards even further.
Jeanne Shaheen: “Our trade system itself creates an incentive to compete by maintaining lower environmental standards, or worse yet, by…”
On the recordApril 27, 2021
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Shaheen discusses trade policy's impact on environmental standards.
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