We want labor standards upheld and children protected from exploitation. Americans want human rights and individual freedom to advance. Open trade advances those American values, those universal values. It talks of the environment while opposing the wealth-creating policies that will pay for clean air and water in developing nations. It talks of the disadvantaged even as it offers ideas that would keep many of the poor in poverty.
Trade creates jobs for the unemployed.
When we negotiate for open markets, we're providing new hope for the world's poor. Look at Taiwan. Look at South Korea. We've been especially impressed by the fresh, new thinking of many members about how to advance environmental and worker protection concerns in ways that open trade rather than closing trade.