WASHINGTON – The Global Business Alliance (GBA) today released new polling showing broad support among American voters for America’s trade agreements, including the United States-Mexico-Canada  Agreement (USMCA), which reached the July 1 joint review milestone.

“USMCA is one of the most powerful tools the United States has to attract global capital, strengthen supply chains, expand manufacturing, and create good-paying American jobs,” said Jonathan Samford, president and CEO of GBA. “At the agreement’s core are clear, stable rules that give international companies the confidence to invest, manufacture, and hire here. That predictability is a competitive advantage worth urgently reaffirming.”

Earlier today, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer confirmed that the U.S. was not prepared to renew USMCA for another 16 years, but indicated negotiations will continue. That news comes at a time when a new Global Business Alliance survey finds that American voters across party lines want the agreement’s clear, stable trade rules kept in place.

“A strong, bipartisan majority of voters view USMCA favorably, call it good for the economy, and see trade with our closest neighbors as essential to American jobs and national security,” said Samford. “On behalf of the 8.7 million Americans who earn a paycheck from an international company, I look forward to working with the Administration to reaffirm USMCA quickly and ensure the United States remains the world’s premier destination for investment.”

Here are some topline findings from the national poll of 1,000 U.S. registered voters:

• Nearly eight in ten voters (79%) say clear, stable trade rules give companies the confidence to invest, and a similar share (78%) say predictability in trade policy is essential because uncertainty delays investment and disrupts supply chains.
• Voters view the USMCA favorably by a margin of 59% to 11%, and 72% say the agreement is good for the U.S. economy.
• Support for the USMCA is bipartisan, holding across Republicans, Democrats, and independents on every core measure tested.
• Nearly three-quarters of voters (72%) say trade with Canada strengthens U.S. national security, as does a majority (57%) on Mexico, while voters single out China as the risk.
• Strong majorities say trade agreements like the USMCA are important for national security (80%), strengthen the economies of all three countries (75%), and help create U.S. jobs (69%).

The Global Business Alliance’s full polling results and memo from the research firm Public Opinion Strategies are available at globalbusiness.org/trade.