Democrats Asking for USMCA-Paris Climate Tie-In

Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., is recruiting signers to a letter that asks the U.S. trade representative to include binding climate standards in NAFTA 2.0, also known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. However, as the trade and environmental advisory committee noted when it evaluated the NAFTA rewrite, "Congress has mandated that trade accords should not include provisions that regulate greenhouse gas emissions." Because of that statute, passed in 2015 in the customs reauthorization, the advisory committee said it wished that the new NAFTA had incentivized trade and investment in renewable energy and building infrastructure that addresses climate change.