Public Citizen
Lori Wallach
Public Citizen is a national nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader. Lori Wallach is Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. The following is excerpted from May 15, 1997, testimony before the International Trade Commission.NAFTA’s corporate and political proponents promised specific benefits from NAFTA: 200,000 new NAFTA jobs per year, higher wages, economic improvements in Mexico, increasing middle-class consumer demand, increasing U.S. trade surplus with Mexico, greater economic and social stability in Mexico, improved environmental and health conditions at the border industrial zone, thorough border inspection as trade volumes increased, inhibiting shipments of unsafe food or…
