The USMCA’s new Rapid Response Mechanism was supposed to prevent workers from being mistreated at Mexican factories. Kathleen Claussen (Georgetown Law) and others join to help explain the RRM and how the threat of targeted trade sanctions is working out so far (46:28).

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• Claussen, Kathleen and Chad P. Bown, “Corporate Accountability by Treaty: The New North American Rapid Response Labor Mechanism,” American Journal of International Law, forthcoming.
• Bown, Chad P. and Kathleen Claussen, “The Rapid Response Labor Mechanism of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,” World Trade Review, forthcoming.