Stakeholders laud Wyden-Brown proposal, knock Section 301 as USMCA enforcement tool

Witnesses at a House hearing on Wednesday offered lawmakers several suggestions -- including a more robust version of a proposal advanced by two Democratic senators -- for how the administration could enforce the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, though all agreed that unilateral action under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act would be inadequate. The stakeholders appeared at a House Ways & Means trade subcommittee hearing on “enforcement in the new NAFTA,” which lasted more than two hours. Witnesses from the International...