The WTO Now Controls Our Economy, Fate and Future

by Thomas Heffner on April 28, 2010 - 10:48am

 
All our decisions regarding trade must be supervised and approved by this foreign undemocratic body – often to our detriment. This is why we can no longer do what is in our best interest and are forced to concede to their demands. Most decisions made by the WTO are unjustifiably made to our detriment.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an undemocratic non-American organization run by the rich, for the rich. The bylaws of the organization supersede our own Constitution. They override, supervise and control all our international trade laws.

The U.S. Constitution states that all treaties made under the authority of the United States become supreme law of the land. However, our government backtracked and irresponsibly allowed the World Trade Organization to rule over us when they signed this treaty. Now we have no choice but to conform many of our laws, regulations and administrative procedures to the agreement.

By signing the agreement with the World Trade Organization, the U.S. Congress agreed to concede a major portion of our sovereignty and usurp our democratic legislative process, including:

• Conforming U.S. laws, regulations and administrative procedures to the will of the WTO
• Subjecting all federal, state and local laws and practices that affect trade to international review by
• Allowing any WTO member country to challenge federal, state and local laws and practices as trade impeding
• Giving the WTO final jurisdiction over all trade altercations
• Empowering the WTO to enforce its rulings by imposing fines on the United States until we comply

Those who signed this lengthy agreement did not read the fine print or did not have the interests of America in mind.

The WTO is inherently wrong for other reasons. This organization has little to no transparency as all of its hearing are closed to the public and all its decisions are final and uncontestable. We lose nine out of every 10 trade disputes brought before this body.

We must renegotiate terms or completely withdraw from the WTO – IMMEDIATELY!

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