Mai le matataʻa Covid-19 ma lona nofo-i-fale faʻatonuga e faʻatupu vevesi ona o faiga saua a leoleo ma latou finauga uma., o le tausaga nei o le a alu ifo i lalo o se tasi o sili ona vevesi i tala lata mai lata mai.
At 2020’s halfway point on July 1, Peitai, o tatou lalolagi ma tamaoaiga tamaoaiga o le a faÊ»atupuina sili ona mautu. That’s the day the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) e faÊ»amalosi, sui o le NAFTA ma faÊ»atagaina ai tatou atunuÊ»u e tolu ia fiafia i fefaÊ»atauaÊ»iga fefaÊ»atauaÊ»iga toe fai.
As farmers from each of the USMCA’s three nations, we’ve written previously about the importance of this trade agreement. i 2018 ma le 2019, na matou unaÊ»ia a tatou malo ma a latou tagata fai pisinisi o fefaatauaiga e faauma le maliega. O lenei, we want to thank them for what they’ve done-and remind everyone that we should be grateful for our vital partnership.
Atonu o le aoga tele lea o 2020: Aua neÊ»i talia se mea, whether it’s the ability to visit elderly relatives or even toilet paper on grocery-store shelves. E te le iloa pe o le a suia mea uma.
Mo faifaatoaga i la matou konetineta, NAFTA galue lelei mo se tupulaga. It didn’t matter if you grew wheat on the plains of Saskatchewan in Canada, maua le sisi i mauga o Vermont i le Iunaite Setete, pe tausi povi susu i le laueleele maualuga o totonugalemu o Mexico.
That’s what we do and where we do it-and each of us benefitted from this economic relationship.
E pei ona manuia le au faifaatoaga, na faapena foi tagata faaaoga. Sa aumai e Kanata ia matou maÊ»a ma saito. Sa ofo mai e le Iunaite Setete sana sana ma susu. Mekisiko na totoina fualaau faisua fou. We became each other’s biggest trading partners, auina atu i fafo ma le faaulufale mai o oloa na manaÊ»o tatou tagata.
I nai auala, e ui o lea, ae le tele o le aoga na matou ave faʻamagaloina: o le manatu o le NAFTA e i ai lava.
Masalo masalo matou te fiafia e iai le NAFTA e faʻavavau, pe itiiti mo se taimi umi. Ona oʻo mai ai lea o le tulaga faapolokiki 2016 ma le 2018, o le populist peresetene sui tauva Donald Trump i le Iunaite Setete ma Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador i Mexico manumalo ai i latou palota ma fesiligia le mafuaʻaga ma le gafatia o le NAFTA.
Mo sina taimi, Na pei lava ua ono paʻu le matou fefaʻatauaiga. Nai lo le faʻatagaina oloa ma auaunaga e tafe atu i luga o tatou tuaoi ma faʻafoeina lelei, sa matou feagai ma le ono iai o ni faʻafitauli fou i le tulaga lea o puipuiga ma tau leaga.
Sa matou manatu o le NAFTA, ma faafuaseʻi ona matou toeitiiti leiloa.
O nei faigata na faamalosia i matou e faafeagai ma nisi o mea faigata. Mo ona manuia uma, O NAFTA na faÊ»amutaina. Na sainia aÊ»o leÊ»i ofi mai le initaneti, which means it didn’t account for how the web has transformed our economies. E leÊ»i tele se tala e uiga i le paiotekonolosi, lea ua toe faÊ»afouina le faÊ»atoÊ»aga ma le faÊ»asaienisi vavega o GMO. Ma sa iai foi i fefaÊ»atauaÊ»iga faÊ»aletonu, involving access to each other’s markets-minor points in the grand scheme of things, ae faÊ»anoanoa ia mo tatou e o latou e manumalo mai ia latou faÊ»atoÊ»aga pisinisi.
Ua faʻafou e le USMCA le tele o ia itu, folafola atu se lumanaʻi sili atu o le tele o galuega, sili atu tau o meaai, ma le gafataulimaina o le tuputupu ae tamaoaiga.
Sili lava o mea uma, Peitai, is that we’ll regain the certainty that we had lost.
E leai se tasi na te iloa le mea faʻatali le lumanaʻi: Ui le tausaga fou aumaia se lamala? E malaia se mafuiʻe aseta? O le a suia se tekonolosi fou le auala tatou te faia ai pisinisi?
We do our best to anticipate what’s ahead, faia o fuafuaga ia. Ae o lenei mea o le tele lava e le mafai ona tatou puleaina.
Fefaatauaiga faiga faavae, Peitai, o loʻo i totonu o le pulega a taʻitaʻi o loʻo fai ma sui.
Mo ni nai tausaga, ona o fesili sa siomia ai le itu i matu o Amerika fefaatauaiga, we struggled to know whether we’d enjoy the ability to buy and sell our products with each other.
O se faʻafitauli a a tatou lava polokiki faʻavae, faʻafetai, o le faʻatinoina o le USMCA e faʻasaoina.
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.
kiliki iinei ia faia se foai i le Global Farmer Network.