House Rejects Trump’s Harmful Tariffs on Canada

WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted in support of rescinding Donald Trump's harmful tariffs on Canada. Six Republicans joined Democrats to pass the legislation.

The vote comes as the United States is legally required to review the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, a trade deal signed by President Trump in his first term and improved with strong engagement from Congress.

In response, Sierra Club Industrial Transformation Campaign Lead Harry Manin issued the following statement:

"While this bill is largely symbolic, the House is sending a clear message to the administration that its tariffs policy is unstrategic and unwise. Instead of imposing punitive tariffs on our greatest trading partners, the administration must negotiate a stronger and stricter USMCA that benefits workers, communities, consumers, public health, and the environment. The Sierra Club and thousands of our members have put forward commentsto the US Trade Representative to support a positive way forward with trade deals. This is the time for the Trump administration to get serious about reducing trade deficits by adopting an environmental enforcement mechanism that holds foreign countries accountable to our health and environmental protections. Trump's chaotic tariffs combined with the Administration's elimination of innovative clean investments and undermining of bedrock environmental laws catalyze a race-to-the-bottom: fewer good jobs, more harmful pollution, less domestic production, and more human rights abuses. USMCA revisions ought to correct our trade weaknesses once and for all."

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