How the Free Trade Agenda Affects You

Trade deals come wrapped in promises of prosperity, but How the Free Trade Agenda Affects You strips away the packaging to reveal the real stakes: control. Free trade agreements are routinely marketed as engines of growth and cooperation. In truth, they embed rules that place multinational interests and supranational tribunals above the Constitution. How the Free Trade Agenda Affects You serves as both title and warning: the consequences reach straight into your community, your job, and your liberty.

The John Birch Society traces the history of modern free trade agreements, showing how each step — from NAFTA to CAFTA to proposed treaties like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) — has widened the authority of unelected bodies at the expense of Congress. Evidence drawn from treaty language, policy analyses, and government records illustrates how these deals undermine the separation of powers and push America toward entangling alliances the Founders warned against.

Rather than focusing narrowly on tariffs, the booklet highlights provisions that dictate domestic policy, regulate labor and environmental standards, and even establish dispute panels that overrule U.S. courts. The issue isn’t commerce; it’s sovereignty. By linking these agreements to a broader push for global governance, the text makes plain the agenda behind the rhetoric of “free trade.”

This is a call to vigilance for readers who value personal freedom and national independence. The time to act is before new agreements lock America deeper into the globalist system. With concise arguments and concrete examples, How the Free Trade Agenda Affects You gives the tools to resist — arming you to stand for liberty now. (2013, 25pp, pb)