{"id":126084,"date":"2019-12-20T01:49:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=126084"},"modified":"2019-12-20T01:49:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:49:12","slug":"latta-has-comments-on-passage-of-usmca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/12\/20\/latta-has-comments-on-passage-of-usmca\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta has comments on passage of USMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013 U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-5th District)&nbsp;joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives in voting to pass the&nbsp;United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Once the USMCA is signed into law, the United States can expect $68 billion in new economic activity. Canada is Ohio\u2019s leading trade partner where 39 percent of the state\u2019s exports totaled to more than $21 billion in revenue in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are finally one step closer to creating over 176,000 American jobs because of the passage of the USMCA,\u201d&nbsp;said Latta. \u201cNAFTA had to be modernized for the 21st century with stronger enforcement provisions including those dedicated to digital trade, expanding free trade, and allowing for a stronger American economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cImportantly, the USMCA prioritizes the American worker and allows our manufacturers to remain globally competitive,\u201d&nbsp;added Latta. \u201cOhio businesses need to be able to continue to sell their products cross-border and I am encouraged that this modernized agreement will facilitate higher levels of regulatory coherence and cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013 U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-5th District)&nbsp;joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives in voting to pass the&nbsp;United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Once the USMCA is signed into law, the United States can expect $68 billion in new economic activity. Canada is Ohio\u2019s leading trade partner where 39 percent of the state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 03:40:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}