Inside Trade

January 24, 2025

Insider Interview

Under Trump, hope -- and recommendations -- for the stronger use of RRM

By Margaret Spiegelman  / December 5, 2024 at 6:30 AM
A desire to boost U.S. competitiveness could drive a second Trump administration to deploy a labor enforcement tool more expansively than its predecessor, according to a legal scholar and former trade official who says the use of the tool so far leaves much room for improvement. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s rapid-response mechanism allows the U.S. to sanction individual facilities in Mexico alleged to be violating workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain, which were secured under a major labor reform that...

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