[inquest]

The agreements are aimed at strengthening environmental protection and creating a Secretariat for Environmental Matters to help implement the environmental provisions of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

Now are you sure that all this does is commit member nations to enforce their own environmental laws? If so, why is an "Environmental Secretariat" needed?

[Dog Gone]

CAFTA requires that each nation enforce its own environmental laws and not circumvent them in an effort to undercut the costs of producing whatever product is being exported.

If anything, we over-enforce our own environmental laws, so this will have no effect on us. The panels that are being set up to hear complaints about labor law or environmental law are going to have an effect on these developing countries, but I can't see how it effects us.

There is nothing in CAFTA which gives it the power to change US law on any matter.

The people on this thread criticizing this agreement obviously know NOTHING about the actual agreement. This agreement so overwhelmingly benefits the US that it's amazing these other countries agreed to it.