Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren told a town hall in Ohio on Mon...
TOLEDO, Ohio/WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren told a town hall in Ohio on Monday that if elected to the White House, she would use the leverage of the United States to raise labor and environmental standards via global trade agreements.
“We can’t use trade as a way to drive down standards across the world, we need to use the leverage of American markets to drive up standards around the world,” she said. Her trade proposals also included a “border carbon adjustment” tax that would be levied against imported goods that require “carbon-intensive” manufacturing processes, she wrote on the online publishing platform Medium.
Instead, his protectionist-leaning trade policies have been more aligned with the historic positions of liberal Democrats. Warren said the changes she would make to trade deals would start with “who is in the room to negotiate,” promising there would be fewer “corporate CEOs and lobbyists” and more representatives from “labor, small businesses and environmentalists.”
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