The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a corporate member of the world-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), has launched a massive new lobbying effort called the USMCA Coalition to garner congressional and public support for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement integration scheme.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the coming weeks and months, the USMCA Coalition will make the case for expeditious passage of the agreement to members of Congress, and it will work to educate the American public about the benefits of the new deal,\u201d the Chamber of Commerce stated in its February 26\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0announcing the launch of the new coalition. \u201cThe effort will harness the advocacy strength of a broad membership of companies, trade associations, and chambers of commerce, including many that operate outside of Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cOver the coming weeks and months, the USMCA Coalition will make the case for expeditious passage of the agreement to members of Congress, and it will work to educate the American public about the benefits of the new deal,\u201d the Chamber of Commerce stated in its February 26\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0announcing the launch of the new coalition. \u201cThe effort will harness the advocacy strength of a broad membership of companies, trade associations, and chambers of commerce, including many that operate outside of Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0USMCA Coalition<\/a>\u00a0is composed over \u201c200 companies and associations representing farmers and ranchers, manufacturers, service providers, and technology companies\u201d led by the Chamber of Commerce. However, on the USMCA Coalition\u2019s website only 84 \u201cCompany Members<\/a>\u201d were listed. Of those 84 company members listed, the following 14 are also\u00a0corporate members of the CFR<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u2022 Amgen, Inc.<\/p>\n \u2022 AT&T<\/p>\n \u2022 Chubb Limited<\/p>\n \u2022 Citigroup (Citi)<\/p>\n \u2022 General Electric<\/p>\n \u2022 Google<\/p>\n \u2022 IBM Corporation<\/p>\n \u2022 Johnson & Johnson<\/p>\n \u2022 JPMorgan Chase & Co.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mastercard<\/p>\n \u2022 MetLife<\/p>\n \u2022 Microsoft<\/p>\n \u2022 Pfizer Inc.<\/p>\n \u2022 Toyota Motor Company<\/p>\n The press release also quoted Devry Boughner Vorwerk, the corporate vice president of Cargill, Incorporated and co-chair of the USMCA Coalition, saying, \u201cThe United States, Mexico and Canada have been transformed by nearly 25 years of open agricultural trade,\u00a0creating a level of economic integration that has made North America one of the world’s most competitive and successful trading blocs<\/em>.\u201d (Emphasis added.) And that is exactly what the USMCA is all about \u2014 \u201ctrading blocs.\u201d<\/p>\n Vorwerk\u2019s comments underscore the USMCA\u2019s importance to the CFR and other promoters of global government who seek \u201ceconomic integration\u201d of North America into a \u201ctrading bloc\u201d similar to the European Union. Rather than 195 countries, as they presently exist, each having its own government and economy, the goal is for there to be only a handful of regional (and in some cases overlapping) supranational union-states. These can best be observed today in forms of such regional trading blocs as the EU, African Economic Community, Mercosur, Eurasian Economic Union, ASEAN\u2013China Free Trade Area, Comprehensive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and NAFTA.<\/p>\n North America and “World Order”<\/strong><\/p>\n In fact, NAFTA\u2019s true place in this proposed world arrangement was admitted by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a leading globalist and member of the CFR\u2019s board of directors, in an op-ed piece published in both the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0on July 20, 1993. About the then-proposed NAFTA, Kissinger wrote, \u201cThe revolution sweeping the Western Hemisphere can point the way to an international order based on cooperation. It is this revolution that is at stake in the ratification of NAFTA. What Congress will soon have before it is not a conventional trade agreement but the hopeful architecture of a new international system.\u201d<\/p>\n Defining what he meant by \u201cnew international system,\u201d Kissinger further wrote: \u201cA regional Western Hemisphere Organization dedicated to democracy and free trade would be a first step toward the\u00a0new world order<\/em>\u00a0that is so frequently cited but so rarely implemented.\u201d (Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n This \u201cnew world order,\u201d as advocated by Kissinger and many in the CFR, is one in which national sovereignty and nation-states would be replaced with a new international system made up of \u201ccompeting,\u201d yet interconnected, trading blocs or regional unions. Like plasma, it is a transitory state toward the solidification of one world government. By default, it is the end of nationhood, patriotism, and Americanism.<\/p>\n Organizations dedicated to the preservation of American sovereignty, such as The John Birch Society, the parent organization of\u00a0The New American<\/em>, are not opposed to trade and commerce in their classical liberal sense, nor do they advocate a policy of isolationism. America has never been an isolationist country. Even during eras of high tariffs, in America\u2019s past, such as during the 1830s (when U.S. tariffs on imported goods reached their highest at 62 percent on dutiable imports), between the 1860s and 1900s (when the average tariff was about 45-percent), and between 1920 and 1932 (when tariffs reached as high as 59-percent in 1932), America still traded with other countries. This is not to suggest that the average tariffs on imported goods should be subject to over 45-percent. Instead, Congress should embrace a smart tariff, one that is flexible and adjusts to satisfy the demands of both domestic consumers and manufactures while also not impairing our domestic access to extracting strategic raw minerals and metals that would be vital during a time of war. Tariffs are also far less intrusive than a progressive individual income tax.<\/p>\n A World Without Tariffs<\/strong><\/p>\n The perpetual drive toward zero tariffs commenced with the\u00a0Trade Agreements Act of 1934<\/a>\u00a0and was followed by America\u2019s subsequent entry into both the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) by executive decree in 1947 and then to the World Trade Organization in 1995. This drive has placed a greater reliance on domestic income taxes or debt (either to the Federal Reserve, which loans the money that it creates to the U.S. government on interest, or to foreign countries such as Communist China to whom the United States currently owes $1.12 trillion) in order to finance the federal government and its ever-growing laundry list of unconstitutional big spending projects and programs.<\/p>\n Zero tariffs, as desired by the advocates of world trade and world government, would harm small businesses unable to compete with large multinational corporations that largely benefit from WTO-approved free trade agreements and that are also CFR corporate members (such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Pepsico, Boeing, Walmart, and Johnson & Johnson, just to name a few).<\/p>\n No tariffs would also compromise U.S. national security with cheap foreign-made steel, aluminum, and other vital metals. The modern international relations theory of \u201cfree trade breeding world peace\u201d is predicated on the notion of interdependence \u2014 the very cornerstone for the establishment of a one world economy and government, or new world order.<\/p>\n This is why the USMCA is so crucial to both Chamber of Commerce and the Council on Foreign Relations; not only does the USMCA \u201creafirm the importance of the economic integration of North America\u201d (as then-Mexican President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u00a0touted at the USMCA signing ceremony<\/a>in Buenos Aires, Argentina), it\u2019s also a stepping stone and pillar for their emerging new world order.<\/p>\n CFR for USMCA<\/strong><\/p>\n Richard N. Haass, the president of the CFR and author of the book\u00a0A World in Disarray<\/em><\/a>, which unabashedly promotes the new world order or \u201cworld order 2.0,\u201d as he dubbed it, tweeted his enthusiasm for the USMCA, following the initial release of the text. \u201cThe USMCA looks to be the trade pact formerly known as NAFTA plus 10-20%.\u201d Haass\u00a0said on Twitter<\/a>. The next day, Haass followed up with another glowing endorsement. \u201cUSMCA is NAFTA plus TPP plus a few tweaks. Whatever … if\u00a0@realDonaldTrump<\/a>\u00a0and the Congress are now prepared to embrace a pro-trade agenda, it is all to the good,\u201d Haass\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cIdeally, US participation in TPP by another name would be next; failing that, a US-Japan FTA would be second best.\u201d<\/p>\n The Chamber of Commerce\u2019s press release also quoted Candi Wolff, the executive vice president for global government affairs at Citi and also a co-chair for the USMCA Coalition. \u201cUSMCA has key improvements for the services sector, including a modernized financial services chapter that for the first time prohibits data localization requirements in the region,\u201d Wolff said. Further stating, \u201cIt\u2019s critical that new trade agreements account for the fact that 75% of jobs in the private sector in the U.S. are now in services, and USMCA does that.\u201d<\/p>\n Citi is the largest bank in the United States and is one of the Big Four banks, which also include JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo \u2014 all four of which are corporate members of the CFR.<\/p>\n “Building a North American Community”<\/strong><\/p>\n In May 2005, the CFR, in conjunction with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales (Mexican Council on International Affairs), published a report entitled \u201cBuilding a North American Community<\/a>.\u201d The controversial 175-page report was produced by a self-styled \u201cIndependent Task Force\u201d chaired by the late Robert Pastor, regarded as the \u201cFather of the North American Union\u201d and a former professor of international relations at American University. Pastor wrote extensively about the need to integrate North America even more than what NAFTA could offer. Of this proposed\u00a0\u201cNorth American Community,\u201dpage 3 of the report stated:<\/p>\n Its boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe. Its goal will be to guarantee a free, secure, just, and prosperous North America.<\/p>\n In other words, replace NAFTA with a kind of EU-Lite. Its other recommendations included: the harmonization of visa requirements; the development of a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers, which is observable today in the form of the\u00a0Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative<\/a>-compliant\u00a0passport card<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0enhanced driver licenses<\/a>\u00a0for land and sea travel within North America (not yet approved for air travel); sharing data about the entry and exit of foreign nationals; harmonizing entry screening and tracking procedures for people, goods, and vessels; law-enforcement cooperation across all three countries; enhancing the current North American Development Bank; and the establishment of a North American Investment Fund to \u201cencourage private capital flow into Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n Before passing away, Pastor credited The John Birch Society for having killed his globalist ambitions for an EU-style North America. Prior to Pastor’s death, The John Birch Society had led successful campaigns exposing and stopping both President Bill Clinton\u2019s proposed Free Trade Area of America (FTAA), which would have extended NAFTA beyond North America to the entire Western Hemisphere (except Cuba), and President George W. Bush\u2019s proposed Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), which would have included many of the recommendations proposed in the CFR\u2019s task force report.<\/p>\n The same globalists who pushed for the FTAA and SPP are the same ones now backing the USMCA, and they do not want a repeat of those results. This is why the Chamber of Commerce has created the USMCA Coalition; its main objective is to serve as a propaganda drive for the USMCA. The USMCA Coalition is their biggest lobbying effort.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Congress is currently waiting on a report from the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) about the USMCA\u2019s expected impact on the economy before formally introducing a USMCA Implementation Act. The ITC’s report was originally expected to be completed in March. However the deadline was extended, due to the temporary partial government shutdown. The ITC report is now slated to come in around April 20, 2019.<\/p>\n The Chamber of Commerce\u2019s USMCA Coalition and other efforts by the CFR to promote this new North American integration scheme underscore the urgency for patriotic Americans, who love their country and are zealous for its national sovereignty and independence, to\u00a0urge Congress to both withdraw from NAFTA and to stop the USMCA<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, The John Birch Society has launched an action project called \u201cGet US Out!<\/em>\u00a0of NAFTA & Stop the USMCA<\/a>,\u201d which as its title suggests, is intended to accomplish just that and in-turn eliminating the blueprint and framework for a \u201cNorth American Community,\u201d as proposed by the CFR. Concerned citizens should consider\u00a0joining The John Birch Society<\/a>\u00a0and taking part in its action project to help save American liberty and independence.<\/p>\n![\"USMCA](\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/f04c12f63605845b9ca67bdbf1b27ae5_XL.jpg\")
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