Since the early 1990s, corporate-rigged free trade agreements (FTAs) have undermined domestic safeguards and perpetuated a global race to the bottom for the cheapest labor and lowest environmental standards, contributing to the hollowing out of U. [...] This move by the Biden administration and USTR broadcasts the message to the world that if a trade deal doesn’t meet standards to protect workers and the environment, it’s not worth concluding. [...] Trade Representative appears to be responsive to the critiques from labor and Congress regarding the lack of transparency in negotiations and enforceable standards in the U. [...] The final outcome of the negotiations was ultimately inadequate to meet the scope of the tragedy facing the world, but shining a light on the deadly prioritization of intellectual property over public health in our global trade systems was an important first step. [...] The world will never forget the critical time the WTO wasted or the untold lives lost because rich countries refused to share the doses and knowledge that scientists around the world and public funds helped produce.
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