Why Our Manufacturing Can’t Compete

Demand It Be Changed Now!

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement – We must change it or get out!  Click Here to see how.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – We must change it or cancel it! Click Here to see why.

The foreign value added tax (VAT) – We must negate its effects on us or implement our own VAT! Click Here to Learn More.

Our “free trade” policies have allowed other countries to use unfair tactics to put our industries out of business. Theoretically these nations are committed to opening their markets to our goods – but they are not as foolish as we are to allow that to happen in an uncontrolled way.

Our trade treaties should protect our country from predatory foreign countries seeking to weaken or destroy American industry. To that end, tariffs should be erected where needed and where practical, as was our policy and procedures in the past. Experience has shown that it is futile to expect other countries to adopt our policies on, for instance, fair and free competition.

What we can do is control the impact of their policies on our economy. The most obvious tool we have is placing tariffs on their exports to us, as they do with our exports to them. No doubt our tariffs would unjustifiably upset them. We would also have to accept the possibility that our loans from them might suffer. However, in the long run, these negatives would be offset by positives and allow us to manufacture competitively and profitably for the first time in the last ten years.

Instead, we are left with a policy of unfettered "free trade" that has brought this nation disastrous deals such as NAFTA and the WTO. "Free Trade," as it is practiced by China, Japan, Mexico and some others, translates to unrestricted access to buy, sell, undercut, or put out of business any company we own (which has been happening at an accelerated rate). We are not allowed to prevent this, due to having signed these disastrous agreements with the WTO and NAFTA, which they strictly enforce.

As long as we are rendered uncompetitive by the effects of these agreements there is nothing we can do, not only to compete, but to exist.  

If we are to survive we must change this immediately or surrender in an economic war that has been forced on us and is destroying us. We have thus been rendered uncompetitive and defenseless and we will be forced to accept a future declining standard of living.

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