Hoʻolālā i ka Pono o ke kālepa

Mai ka papa Covid-19 a me kāna noho i ka home helu i ka hoʻoweliweli ʻana i ka pilakino o nā mākaʻi a me kā lākou mau hoʻohaunaele a pau., e iho i kēia makahiki ʻo ia kekahi o nā haunaele i ka moʻolelo hou.

At 2020’s halfway point on July 1, nae, e lilo hou ko mākou mau honua a i ke ola waiwai. That’s the day the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) kau komo i ka ikaika, ke kahakaha Ê»ana i ka NAFTA a e Ê»ae i kā mākou mau'āina Ê»ekolu e Ê»oliÊ»oli i ka pilina pili Ê»ana i nā pilina kÅ«Ê»okoÊ»a.

As farmers from each of the USMCA’s three nations, we’ve written previously about the importance of this trade agreement. i 2018 a 2019, ua paipai mākou i kā mākou mau aupuni a me kā lākou Ê»oihana kālepa e hoÊ»opau i ka Ê»oihana. I kÄ“ia manawa, we want to thank them for what they’ve done-and remind everyone that we should be grateful for our vital partnership.

Ê»O kÄ“ia paha ka haÊ»awina nui a 2020: Mai lawe i kekahi mea i hāʻawi Ê»ia, whether it’s the ability to visit elderly relatives or even toilet paper on grocery-store shelves. Ê»AÊ»ole Ê»oe e Ê»ike i ka wā e hoÊ»ololi ai nā mea āpau.

No ka poÊ»e mahiÊ»ai ma o kā mākou ʻāina, Ua hana pono Ê»o NAFTA no kekahi hanauna. It didn’t matter if you grew wheat on the plains of Saskatchewan in Canada, i paÊ»i i ka wai i loko o nā puÊ»u o Vermont ma Ê»Amelika Hui PÅ« Ê»Ia, a i hoÊ»okiÅ« ai i nā bipi waiÅ« ma nā kiÊ»ekiÊ»e o Mexico.

That’s what we do and where we do it-and each of us benefitted from this economic relationship.

E like me ka holomua o ka mahiÊ»ai, pÄ“lā pÅ« ka mea kÅ«Ê»ai. Ua hoÊ»olana mai Ê»o Kanada iā mākou i ka iÊ»a a me ka palaoa. Hāʻawi ka United States i ka palaoa a me ka waiÅ«. Ua ulu iki o Mexico i nā lau Ê»ai hou. We became each other’s biggest trading partners, hoÊ»opuka a hoÊ»opuka ana i nā huahana a ko mākou poÊ»e i makemake ai.

I kekahi mau ala, ʻoiai, ʻo ka pōmaikaʻi nui loa ka mea a mākou i lawe ai: ʻo ka manaʻo e pili mau ana ʻo NAFTA ma laila.

Pena paha mākou e hauʻoli i ka NAFTA e hele mau loa, a i ʻole ma ka manawa lōʻihi. A laila ua hele mai nā pāpā politika 2016 a 2018, i ka hui ʻana o ka pelekikena Pelekikena Donald Trump i ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa a me Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ma Mekiko i ko lākou koho balota a nīnau i ke kumu a me ka hiki o NAFTA.

No kekahi manawa, he mea e like paha e hāʻule paha kā mākou hana kālepa. Ma mua o ka ʻae ʻana i nā huahana a me nā lawelawe e holo ma waena o ko mākou mau palena me ka hana hoʻopili, ua alo mākou i ka manaʻolana ʻana o nā pilikia hou i loko o ke ʻano o nā tari palekana a me nā rula ʻino.

Ua lawe ʻia mākou i NAFTA no ka ʻae ʻana, a alualu koke makou i ka nalo ana.

Ua paÊ»akikÄ« kÄ“ia mau pilikia i ka hoÊ»ohālikelike Ê»ana i kekahi mau mea maoli. No kona pono āpau, Ua naha Ê»ole nā ​​NAFTA. Ua hoÊ»opaÊ»a Ê»ia ma mua o ka hōʻea Ê»ana o ka pÅ«naewele, which means it didn’t account for how the web has transformed our economies. He mea liÊ»iliÊ»i loa ia e ʻōlelo ai e pili ana i ka biotechnology, ka mea i hoÊ»ohuli Ê»ia i ka mahiÊ»ai me ka hana Ê»epekema a GMO. A loaÊ»a nō hoÊ»i i nā kalaiwa kālepa, involving access to each other’s markets-minor points in the grand scheme of things, akā hoÊ»onele i ka poÊ»e o mākou e lanakila iā lākou i kā mākou Ê»oihana mahiÊ»ai.

Hoʻopau ʻo USMCA i kēia mau helu he nui, ka hoʻopiʻi ʻana i ka ʻoi aʻe o nā hana, nā kumukūʻai maikaʻi ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi, a me ka ulu hoʻokele waiwai.

Ê»Oi loa, nae, is that we’ll regain the certainty that we had lost.

ʻAʻohe e ʻike i ka mea e hiki mai ana: E lawe mai i kahi makahiki e hiki ai ka ua? E haehae paha kahi lulu ʻana i kahi ʻoihana? E hoʻololi i kahi ʻenehana hou aʻe i ke ala e hana ai mākou i ka ʻoihana?

We do our best to anticipate what’s ahead, e hoÊ»olālā ana i ka mooolelo no ia. Akā Ê»oi aku ka nui o ia mea i kā mākou hiki Ê»ole.

Kulekele kūʻai, nae, piha i loko o nā mana o nā alakaʻi e hōʻike iā mākou.

No kekahi mau makahiki, ma muli o nā nÄ«nau i hoÊ»opuni nei i nā pilina kalepa ʻĀkau o Ê»Amelika, we struggled to know whether we’d enjoy the ability to buy and sell our products with each other.

He pilikia kēia o kā mākou iho hana politika a i kēia manawa, mahalo, ʻo ka hoʻokō ʻana o USMCA i mālama ia.

I Iulai 1, let’s be glad that we have an economic agreement that will help us all-and resolve never to take it for granted again.

E kaomi i 'aneʻi e hana i kahi hāʻawi i ka Global Farmer Network.