the American people.
Your chart says it all.
BILL CLINTON signed NAFTA in 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement
BILL CLINTON also extended favored nation status to China in 1994.
Friday, May 27, 1994
Clinton Grants China MFN, Reversing Campaign Pledge
By Ann Devroy
The Washington Post
http://tech.mit.edu/V114/N27/china.27w.html
It was followed by the dot-com boom.
And then, three years after the signing of NAFTA and in spite of the dot.com boom, our manufacturing sector steadily declined.
Other important dates.
We joined GATT in 1948. All went well until the oil crises of the 1970s.
We joined the WTO in 1995,
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/countries_e/usa_e.htm
For those who are interested, here is a list of the countries with which we have trade agreements:
The United States has free trade agreements in force with 20 countries. These are:
Australia
Bahrain
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Israel
Jordan
Korea
Mexico
Morocco
Nicaragua
Oman
Panama
Peru
Singapore
https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements
More information on our free trade agreements:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_trade_agreements
1985 -- free trade agreement with Israel including Palestine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_trade_agreements
We do not need another "free" trade agreement.
As your chart shows, there is a direct relationship between the decline in our industrial sector and the growth in the number of our trade agreements.
And with each trade agreement, we hide our consumption of dirty fuels and our contribution to the death of our planet.
No thanks to these dirty trade deals.
We can trade without "free" trade agreements. These agreements take the control over our trade out of the hands of the American people and into the hands of large multinational corporations. There is nothing "free" about them for the American people.
We do not want or need more trade agreements.
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