“Calling for a trade policy that supports workers, consumers, independent farmers, small businesses, and the environment.”
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This section expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that U.S. trade policy should reject both the prior Administration’s approach and earlier models, instead centering workers, family farmers, consumers, environmental protection, and national security. It states that trade agreements must include strong, binding, and enforceable labor and environmental standards, facility-level enforcement tools, fair wage guarantees in manufacturing and other tradeable sectors, and requirements that corporations meet wage floors to receive preferential tariff treatment; that public procurement and infrastructure spending must prioritize domestic products with strengthened Buy America rules requiring domestic melting, pouring, smelting, casting, and fabrication of materials such as steel and aluminum, while limiting waivers; that trade and tax policy must penalize offshoring, condition market access on creation of U.S. jobs, prioritize domestic investment through contracts and incentives with clawback remedies, and maintain a fully funded Trade Adjustment Assistance Program; that agreements must exclude investor-state dispute settlement and incorporate robust environmental standards addressing industrial pollution plus enforcement against industrial espionage and intellectual property theft; that trade policy must preserve access to affordable medicines and governments’ ability to negotiate lower drug prices and support domestic production without new monopoly protections; and that agreements must include mandatory country-of-origin labeling, targeted support for small- and mid-scale farmers, antimonopoly disciplines, and recognition of countries’ sovereign food safety standards.