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L. decisions regarding local building permits, state bans on toxic chemicals and decisions of state courts. M. Promoting economic growth with equity in the City of Eugene requires an approach that reforms the entire trade negotiation process to ensure that voices of workers, farmers, small businesses, families and communities are heard and their interests addressed. N. The TPP has been negotiated in secret, effectively shutting state and local governments out of the process, limiting our ability to influence its rules to ensure the people of the City of Eugene can participate in the benefits of trade. O. Given the enactment of fast track trade negotiating authority, states, localities and their citizens will have no opportunity to correct shortcomings in the TPP since its text will not be made public until it is final and no longer can be improved. P. Repeating old mistakes in negotiating new trade agreements such as the TPP represents a missed opportunity to strengthen our economy, reduce income inequality and promote sustainable growth. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Oregon, as follows: Section 1 . The City Council of the City of Eugene calls upon our elected officials in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives to oppose the TPP and any similar trade deals if they fail to restructure their basic inadequacies and unequal preferences the misguided and failed policies of the past; Section 2 . The City Council of the City of Eugene calls upon our elected officials in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives to support new trade deals such as the TPP only if they will: (a) Exclude ISDS and other provisions that favor foreign companies over domestic ones and undermine public choices; (b) Ensure that countries cannot undercut U.S. based producers with weaker labor and environmental laws and enforcement; (c) Ensure that the U.S. will engage in robust enforcement of trade rules, including labor and environmental rules; (d) Include strong rule of origin to promote economic growth and job creation in the U.S.; (e) Promote high standards of protection for workplaces, products, and natural resources rather than promoting a race to the bottom; and (f) Include provisions which put the interests of people and the planet over the interests of private profit. Resolution - Page 2 of 3