STOP CAFTA NOW!

____________________, 2005

The Honorable ________________________________________
United States Senate
Washington D.C. 20510

Dear Senator __________________________________

I Urge Your Opposition to CAFTA for the following reasons:

The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA trade agreements all contain the SPS
(Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) agreement. Article 3 of SPS states:

"To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible,
Members SHALL base their food safety measures on international standards,
guidelines or recommendations."

This makes the supposedly voluntary Codex Alimentarius standard for vitamins and
minerals MANDATORY for all WTO member nations.

Passage of CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen the scope of the SPS
agreement, forcing harmonization of not only our dietary supplement laws to mindless
international standards, but it would lead to the creation of a supranational body
similar to the EU in our hemisphere, and we oppose this clear threat to US sovereignty.

When the draft text of CAFTA was first made available on January 28th, 2004 the
Governors of all 50 States discovered that they were bound by the 2,400 page
agreement - being specifically listed in chapter 9. A third have since rescinded their
support of CAFTA.

Last fall, a WTO tribunal outlawed Utah's ban on gambling, opening the door to millions
of dollars in penalties against all states with anti-gambling restrictions. Antigua had
charged that Utah's ban on gambling violated America's obligation not to discriminate
against foreigners providing recreational services.

CAFTA includes hundreds of pages of grants of vague authority to foreign tribunals. It
wouldn't take long for an activist foreign judge to read his own interpretation into language
such as the SPS agreement and force changes to US laws including the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act.

In addition to these concerns, NAFTA never lived up to the numerous promises made
about it, and our Trade Deficit is worse now than ever, contributing to the weakening of the
dollar. There is no reason to expect CAFTA or FTAA do anything more than to FURTHER
this negative trend, and lead to the destruction of our nation, and our economy.

WTO tribunals have ruled against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, many of which were very
costly to our economy. Since joining the advent of NAFTA, our trade deficit has ballooned to
$617 Billion. CAFTA continues this failed policy, threatening to destroy our country. I
therefore ask you to vote NO on CAFTA and on FTAA.

Sincerely,

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