The World Trade Organization is a powerful self-serving undemocratic organization, operating with no input or control by us and with no concern for what is in our best interest. The bylaws of the organization supersede our own Constitution, which is a total contradiction to the intent of our Constitution. The U.S. Constitution states that all treaties made under the authority of the United States become supreme law of the land. Our government, under pressure from foreign paid lobbyists, mistakenly invited the WTO to rule over us when they signed the treaty. Now we have no choice but to conform our laws, regulation and administrative procedures to the agreement, instead of to our own Constitution.

Since entering the WTO in 2001, trade with China has resulted in the loss of 2.3 million jobs through 2007, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Those fortunate enough to retain their jobs witnessed their annual earnings decrease by roughly $1,400. American workers are put in direct competition with one another as more and more employers look to offshore production to nations with lower wage rates.

Jobs losses have affected every sector of the economy in both white and blue-collar workers. Over that time we have lost:

• 561,000 jobs in computer and electronic products
• 153,000 in apparel and accessories
• 139,000 in administrative support services
• 128,000 in professional, scientific and technical services

In all, those displaced workers lost an average of $8,146 annually - a total of $19.4 billion - as they moved into lower paying jobs. These job losses can be directly attributed to China’s rapidly growing trade surplus with us maintained by the systematic manipulation of the Chinese yuan.

By purposely undervaluing their currency, China subsidizes their exports - some estimates put this subsidy at nearly 30 percent. This practice has allowed America’s trade deficit with China to balloon since China entered into the WTO. In 2001, when China joined the WTO, they held a small trade surplus of $84 billion with us. By 2007, that number has grown exponentially to $262 billion. On average, that deficit will increase by $30 billion each and every year.

With the U.S-China trade deficit exploding, more job losses are forecast in the future. The Progressive Policy Institute claims that unless the trade deficit is brought under control, 12 million information-based jobs in the U.S. are highly susceptible in the future. This can be seen today in what some are calling the jobless “recovery.” Without jobs, there can be no recovery.

Beyond the quantifiable numbers of economic hardship here in America, the WTO is inherently wrong for other reasons. The organization remains indifferent to issues of workers rights, child labor and environmental protection standards. The organization has little to no transparency as all of its hearing are closed to the public. It is no wonder then that we lose nine out of every 10 trade disputes brought before the body.

The WTO has come to represent the most efficient form of colonization the world has ever seen - reaping all the benefits with no downsides of occupation. The corporate agenda of the organization has destroyed the developing economies of the world, exploiting cheap resources and giving them little in return.

We must renegotiate terms or completely withdraw from the WTO – immediately!

The World Trade Organization (WTO): America Can No Longer Live With It

The WTO is a biased undemocratic organization of 153 nations that limits America's ability to act in its own best interest. In it, the United States has no larger vote than a smaller country, such as Grenada (Article IX, p. 5).

By signing the agreement with the World Trade Organization, the U.S. Congress agreed to concede a a major portion of our sovereignty and usurp our democratic legislative process, including:

• Conforming U.S. laws, regulations and administrative procedures to the will of the WTO (Article XVI, p. 10)
• Subjecting all federal, state and local laws and practices that affect trade to international review by the WTO (Article XVI, p. 10)
• Allowing any WTO member country to challenge federal, state and local laws and practices as trade impeding (Section 2 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding)
• Take all trade disputes to the WTO judiciary – giving the WTO final jurisdiction over all trade altercations. No appeal exists outside of the WTO (Section 2 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding)
• Empowering the WTO to enforce its rulings by imposing fines on the United States until we comply

The Rights of America are Subservient to the Will of the World Trade Organization. Those who Signed this Lengthy Agreement did not Read the Fine Print or did not have the Interests of America in Mind.

America's WTO Agreement MUST Be Amended of Eliminated!

Amending the agreement with the WTO requires submitting a proposal to the Ministerial Conference. Once the amendment has been accepted, it should only take 90 days to render a consensus. (Article X, p. 6). If the Untied States opts to withdraw, the President would be required to send a letter to both the Congress and the Director General of the WTO and we would be free of any obligations to the WTO in six months (Article XV, p. 9). Until then, per Article VI of the United States Constitution, our agreement with the World Trade Organizations “shall be the Supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby.”

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