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May 10th Agreement

On May 10, 2007, House Democrats authored what became known as the "May 10th Agreement" on labor and environmental standards in trade agreements. For the first time, fully enforceable labor and environmental standards would be placed into our trade agreements on equal footing with every other commercial provision. The “May 10th Agreement” also included important provisions on medicines, investment, and government procurement. U.S. trade agreements with Peru, Panama, Colombia, and Korea were re-negotiated to include May 10th. The text of the resulting so-called "May 10th Agreement" can be found here [PDF].

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