Join other industry groups and stakeholders in calling on Congress to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) this autumn.

Use the form below to sign onto a broad industry letter in favor of the USMCA. We invite you to add your company or organization’s name to this letter by Friday, October 11 at 8:00 p.m. EDT, and to share it to other interested organizations that might be interested in signing.

This letter is open to companies along with business and industry associations, state and local chambers and allied organizations.

If you have any questions please contact Ken Monahan, Director, International Trade Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers at kmonahan@nam.org.

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Letter to Congress in Support of USMCA Passage

October XX, 2019

Dear Member of Congress:

As associations and businesses representing manufacturers large and small across all sectors of the U.S. manufacturing industry, we write to you to urge passage of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as soon as possible this autumn. Doing so is essential to promoting certainty and growth for manufacturing businesses, workers and families across the United States—each of whom relies on trade with our North American partners to prosper and grow.

North America is the most significant trade market for the United States globally, with Canada and Mexico purchasing one-fifth of the total value of U.S. manufacturing output. Canada and Mexico alone, despite representing less than 4 percent of the global economy, buy more U.S.-manufactured goods than our next 11 trading partners combined. Here at home, U.S. manufacturing exports to Canada and Mexico support millions of American manufacturing jobs as well as 40,000 small and medium-sized businesses and communities across all 50 states.

The USMCA makes significant improvements to the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement and will spur growth and much-needed certainty within the critical North American market, including provisions that will do the following:

• Strengthen and Modernize America’s Innovation Engine: The USMCA includes best-in-class intellectual property rules that will help protect the full range of U.S. manufacturing inventions and innovations from theft and set new standards for the 21st-century digital economy that will prohibit distortive measures that undermine American innovation.

• Expand U.S. Manufacturing Access to Canada and Mexico: The USMCA will maintain and improve duty-free market access to Canada and Mexico, eliminating red tape at the border and making it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to sell into these critical markets.

• Level the Playing Field: The USMCA will raise standards, improve transparency and prohibit both anti-U.S. discrimination and anti-competitive activity—all while providing the same binding enforcement for all obligations in the agreement.

Manufacturers call on both the House of Representatives and the Senate to make consideration and approval of the USMCA a top priority this autumn to promote the continued growth of America’s manufacturing sector and well-paying manufacturing jobs across the United States.

Sincerely,