Lori Wallach
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And Canada unilaterally dropped that and has proceeded to invite Chinese firms to come in and invest and make Chinese cars in Canada.
And that is going to be a huge problem to overcome because there won't be a successful North American auto market without really a North American auto market.
And that's going to require these external tariffs.
There is a transpartisan interest in getting this agreement and getting North America to be that high-wage manufacturing powerhouse that we need.
So there is majority support, I would say, in Congress probably to pass a renegotiated USMCA that fixes some of these structural issues to actually make it deliver the balanced trade and good jobs and higher wages that was its initial promise.