Jim McDermott: “If you play by the rules and you work hard, you are running in place; you are not getting ahead.”

The USMCA proved that bringing all stakeholders to the table--labor, workers, business, and members of Congress--can produce stronger trade agreements.

We are trying to figure out where we are going as a country and how we can turn our investments and innovation into sustainable models moving forward.

It includes a new tool known as the rapid response mechanism that, when used, allows us to promptly raise concerns with the Mexican and Canadian Governments when there are allegations of worker rights violations.

The work that the Innovation Center is doing will help us become more efficient and achieve our shared goals of containing costs.