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The 21 member agencies of the TPSC (Trade Policy Staff Committee) and the TPRG (Trade Policy Review Group) consist of (...) the Environmental Protection Agency, (...) the Council on Environmental Quality, (...)

(...) In addition, during TPP negotiations, USTR worked with each TPP partner hosting negotiating rounds to plan events open to registered stakeholder participation. These events, including during the final round of negotiations in Atlanta in September-October 2015, included briefings from chief negotiators and provided multiple opportunities to provide input into the negotiations, including those with respect to chapters addressing agriculture, market access for industrial goods, environment, tobacco, investment, pharmaceuticals, and intellectual property.

USTR published the full text of the TPP Agreement on 5 November 2015, well in advance of the legal requirement, accompanied by detailed chapter summaries and fact sheets explaining the agreement's contents and benefits for workers, manufacturers, ranchers, farmers, services providers, and others, and explaining its achievements on issues such as maintaining a free and open Internet, raising labor and environmental standards, and helping American small and medium-sized businesses export.

The United States continues to rely on its trade advisory committee system as an integral part of its efforts to ensure that U.S. trade policy and trade negotiating objectives adequately reflect U.S. public and private sector interests. The trade advisory committee system, substantially broadened and reformed, consists of 28 advisory committees, with a total membership of approximately 700 advisors. Advisory committee members represent the full span of interests including manufacturing; agriculture; digital trade; intellectual property; services; small businesses; labor; environmental, consumer, and public health organizations; and state and local governments. The system is arranged in three tiers: the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN); five Policy Advisory Committees dealing with environment, labor, agriculture, Africa, and state and local issues; and 22 technical advisory committees in the areas of industry and agriculture.

During the review period, the United States continued efforts to strengthen the rules-based multilateral trading system, including through new initiatives, as evidenced by the U.S. role in finalizing the expansion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), in negotiating the Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA), and in announcing—together with a diverse group of developing and developed countries—our intention to launch negotiations in the WTO on a plurilateral fisheries subsidies agreement.

In July 2014, the United States and 13 other WTO members, accounting for 86% of global trade in environmental goods, launched the EGA negotiations. The current 17 WTO Members participating in the EGA negotiations have made significant progress to develop a list of environmental technologies that will be subject to tariff elimination. At the G20 Leaders' summit in September 2016, Ministers achieved a landing zone to conclude the EGA negotiations by the end of 2016. Achieving global free trade in environmental goods is a key part of both the President's Climate Action Plan and U.S. trade and environmental policy.

On 14 September 2016, the United States and 12 other WTO members announced their intent to negotiate a plurilateral fisheries subsidies agreement to address the urgent challenges facing global fisheries. Our goal is to eliminate harmful subsidies, including those subsidies that contribute to overfishing and overcapacity, and subsidies linked to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The United States has insisted on high standards for U.S. trade agreements, and has taken a proactive approach, in close consultation with Congress and American stakeholders, to ensure trade agreements not only open markets, but also improve transparency and governance, and support stronger protection of labor rights and the environment. Such an approach better serves American workers and business, better reflect our values, and creates a stronger, more enduring foundation for economic links with our partners. Throughout 2015 and 2016, the United States has sought to intensify its efforts through regional initiatives, such as the TPP and the T-TIP, as well as through bilateral engagement with major trading partners and emerging markets.

The TPP Agreement will open markets and raise standards in the fastest growing region in the world, boosting economic growth, promoting innovation, and supporting job creation in the United States and its TPP partners, as shown by independent economic studies. In addition to including ambitious market access commitments, the TPP addresses non-tariff barriers and includes commitments that will create common, high standards across the region in such areas as intellectual property, labor, environment, and transparency and anti-corruption. (...)

After signing NAFTA, the United States, Canada, and Mexico concluded supplemental agreements on labor and environment. Under these agreements, the Parties are, among other things, obligated to effectively enforce their environmental and labor laws. The agreements also provide frameworks for cooperation among the Parties on a wide variety of labor and environmental issues. In connection with NAFTA, the United States and Mexico also agreed to fund a development bank to address environmental infrastructure needs along the U.S.-Mexico border.