On Cleaning up the Cartels

>>7395204 (LB)

>>7395234 (LB)

The USMCA could help us here.

So I’ve been digging on the USMCA. In it are provisions to agree upon certain standards. These standards apply to the environment, workers’ rights, etc.… To sum it up (between a couple of chapters): If the Cartels are trafficking people, corrupting businesses, violating laws or rights. We can use certain sectors of trade as leverage to get them to clean it up.

So If we can’t go in and Nuke the bad guys, we can say, “Were not buying your avocados until you get the cartels’ fingers out of the guacamole.”

>>7395382

>>7395405

>>7395423

I get it, and don't disagree.

Just adding another dimension to the situation.

>>7395439

Yes, the beauty is the leverage of trade.

It does not lock any party into trading if there is a dispute, (for example: you have corruption in this sector of trade, so we end this part of the agreement.)

The only enforcement is trade. There are provisions for multiple ways of determining the dispute, agreed upon by all parties involved, (arbitration, mediation, setting up a panel). But in the end, each party (U.S., Canada, Mexico) can do what the hell it wants, but may get blocked out of trading obligations/agreements.

>>7395665

Great Idea Last Bread

Here's what I got

>>7395821

Crap, Crop!

>>7395508

The USMCA does require that all parties agree to basic legal standards and breaks it out in a couple of chapters.

Chapter 23 is about Labor. It concerns forced labor, discrimination, child labor and collective bargaining.

It specifically states that each party makes its own laws based on these principles. None are new or in addition to what The US has currently.

There is no legal enforcement between the parties:

Chapter 23.5.4

Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to empower a Party’s authorities to undertake labor law enforcement activities in the territory of another Party.

If one country thinks another is not enforcing it's own laws, and it is decided through mediation, arbitration, or other means agreed upon by the parties. Trade can then be suspended. Not necessarily all trade, just the trade in that sector.

So if Canada has unpaid children working to make T-shirts cheaper than ours, We can suspend trade on textiles with them.