The U.S. Trade Representative’s office is considering offering a sunset proposal during the next round of North American Free Trade Agreement talks this week in Ottawa. That provision would automatically cancel the deal five years after approval if the three countries don’t renew it. Nebraska Pork Producers Association President Russ Vering thinks that’s a bad proposal.
He says NAFTA has been very beneficial to the Midwest and overall national economy.
Vering says good trade agreements are not short term and are intended to last for a long duration. He says sunset provisions don’t allow for that.
Officials in both the U.S. Department of Agriculture and State Department agree with Vering that the sunset provision in NAFTA is not a good move by the USTR.
