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CSPAN Interview Ellyn Ferguson July 14, 2024

Canadian dairy market. There are changes, for example, content in cars manufactured in north america. Countries, it e raises the content required to a dutyfree treatment 75 . 62. 5 to nd also would require between 40 to 45 of all cars or car to s made in north america come from factories or places where the average pay for about 16. Rules e changes on those of origin are designed to favor he United States and canada, which tend to have higher pay cales, and will be providing more of the material. So it includes those things as maintaining sort of this relationship, this trading relationship thats more than a a year thats s developed among the three countries. Report, in the roll call, the House Democratic mca, ng group on the u. S. Head lined one of your roll call pieces, democrats say support nafta depends on trump. Those democrats have been meeting with the trade representative robert lighthouser, how is that going so far . Well, at this point i its mostly staff from u. S. Tr and u. S. Trade Representatives Office and the group. My understanding is that proposals are being traded back still th and they are working together. Its fairly cordial. Actual l decisions or decisions wont be made until the members, the lawmakers, who part of the working group, return september 9 with the looking over rt sort of the work products of the staff. That more nding is than likely what will happen throughout september is there of these finement proposals. Dont know when a vote is likely to happen. I think that democrats, if they reach the point where they agree be a vote, it ld will happen sometime in the fall. Tell us a little bit about the process. Ou write about chuck grassley, the finance hearing. Chuck grassley saying he wants a on implementing legislation for the u. S. Mca. How does that work . House and senate have to do to move that forward . Right now, the aysandmeans, house, waysandmeans committee, and. S. Dr, are working on sort of a draft implementing bill. Is that bill es, has to move through congress, thats what congress will be when there is a vote if there is a vote, and that details. Thats also an area where democrats who want to make some changes, who want to improve hat they think is in the text of the improve the overall agreement, would include changes. Hey would also include perhaps additional funding or authorization for funding for enforcement. Big issue with democrats. O its kind of the vehicle by which the United States, canada, im sorry, United States, new Canada Agreement would move through congress. For it s the vehicle all. Your headline says that pact,sses praise the trade talking about the hearing you covered, democrats have labor questions. Of the the biggest focus democrats concern, is the labor regulations in those other in mexico in particular . Major , they have four areas, the working group, the trade Representatives Office have been working on. Rights is one of them. Generally, the agreement has of the unions have said, agreement is sed much better on labor than the north American Free trade agreement. Hey are encouraged by legislative changes that the government of mexico has made, committed ars to be to implementing and moving ahead with it. Labor. Is there is environment. Hey want strong Environmental Enforcement to control pollution nd also to allow strong enforcement in penalties for hen there are environmental violations. He third is, they want enforcement. There is concern that everything in the agreement, maybe it looks paper, but how do you make sure that businesses live to the labor rights, for example, one of the changes that it will go ade is through 700,000 agreements that were done with company unions, did not actually involve any input from the workers at these plants and companies. How do you make sure that you make companies abide by the new and then there is a fourth one, which is about pharmaceuticals. Democrats are concerned about provisions in the agreement, that would give pharmaceutical companies 10 monopoly pricing on biologics. Say that will drive up drug prices in canada and mexico. Hey are also concerned because they wonder if that will stop congress from lowering the drug monopoly time thats in the United States. Right now its the 12 years. At crats are looking possibly lowering it below 10 years because they believe that key part of their effort to reduce drug prices. Areas. Se are the four Ellyn Ferguson covering trade and roll congress call. Ook for her fall preview on this element. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Cspans washington journal, live every day, with news and issues that impact you. Coming up, monday morning, smith from the victims of communism memorial foundation. Protests pro democracy against china. Also, Voting Machines security, ith university of michigan Computer Science and engineering alex halderrman. Be sure to watch cspans ashington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern monday morning. Discussion. Tomorrow night on cspan, millennial journalist on the journalism. Changesk about industry and fake news heres a portion of the discussion where a what its scribes like to be the first to break media news ys cycle. It can be a asset but on the lip side, we dont have what abc news has. There is no Fact Checking our stories. And a copy ditor editor. So, you know in one story, when t was moving quickly, we misidentified the shooter and a s mom [inaudible] its that kid in that track and field photo. Yeah, six like, okay, this. E told us it was not that kid. So, you know, that was something learned, is to, especially in breaking news and of that trying to be back, and take a deep breath and question and verify more, especially like now with the ace of news, its more important than ever, yeah. Millennials discuss the journalism. Industry changes and fake news. Omorrow night at 9 00 p. M. Cspan. 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