How to unleash incredible prosperity through trade
Our partners are proving the benefits of free trade, lowering barriers to trade, and promoting the openness that makes everyone better off.
Trade barriers are growing, hurting Americans through higher prices and fewer choices.
Show the benefits of free trade to stop further barriers and remove existing ones.
A diverse, wide-reaching, and growing coalition, from scholars and influencers to business leaders and activists.
Stopped a trillion dollars in higher costs, supporting smarter China policy, stopping counter-productive national industrial policy
Trade is essential to America’s unprecedented prosperity.
The average family is more than $18,000 richer because of it. Yet the benefits of free trade are increasingly ignored, while calls to block foreign trade are growing.
Stand Together and our partners are uniting to reverse these trends. We’re shoring up support for trade, lowering barriers, and opening the door to greater opportunity and prosperity for all.
The truth about free trade is being ignored: Trade is win-win for all of us.
The Challenge
What explains the turn against trade?
After decades of lowering barriers and opening new markets, which led to lower prices, more jobs, and more choices, policymakers are creating new obstacles to the exchange of goods and services. It’s called “protectionism,” yet Americans are being punished, not protected.
Jobs lost from recent trade barriers
Higher costs for families due to recent tariffs
Decline in public support for free trade from 2020 to 2021
The proof is everywhere, and everyone is affected. Higher prices at the store. Fewer jobs at local businesses. A weaker economy. Every day, policies like tariffs and “buy American” mandates hurt more people.
Of Americans still support trade, despite recent declines
Americans can’t afford cutting off trade — and most people still support trade, despite recent declines. Stand Together and its partners are elevating their voices.
The Partnerships
Years devoted to advancing free trade
Our partners understand the benefits of free trade, and they want to share those benefits with every American. Our collaboration is showing the danger of trade barriers, while proving the bottom-up progress and prosperity that openness makes possible.
JOBS: We support workforce development programs empowering communities and workers affected by trade
IDEAS: We support scholars researching the benefits of free trade, the harms of barriers, and the path to more trade
BUSINESS: We unite businesses in support of free trade and opposition to tariffs and other barriers
GOVERNMENT: We build coalitions to tackle key challenges to trade and support opportunities for liberalizing trade
Our approach is to tackle this issue from every angle. Our partners’ work is mutually reinforcing, better enabling us to empower Americans’ voices to block bad policies and open the door to even more of trade’s amazing benefits.
The Progress
Support for trade barriers is gaining ground, fast. That’s why we’re going big in support of openness and free trade.
Our partners have defeated dangerous policies, including the border-adjustment tax. They’re now leading the charge to get U.S. policy toward China right, defeat “national industrial policy” and its limitations on foreign trade, and pass more free-trade agreements and pro-trade policies.
Savings per family thanks to the defeat of the border-adjustment tax — $1T+ total savings
Partners involved in coalitions to preserve and promote trade
Getting trade policy right will take time, but we’re in it for the long haul.
Stand Together will continue to build partnerships to remove barriers and reap the benefits of free trade.
Americans are counting on more free trade for a better future. We won’t let them down.
Let's Work Together
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