The Trump administration this week released its objectives for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)—the trade deal Donald Trump referred to as  “the worse deal ever”—and while observers say the document includes “a lot of boilerplate language” and is “fairly vague,” advocacy groups say it appears to be a road-map for the deal to continue benefiting multinational corporations at the expense of workers.

Fast Track authority—granted by Congress to the executive branch under the Obama administration—requires the White House to release their trade objectives 30 days before negotiations are set to begin. The first round of talks between the three parties, the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, is set to begin in August.

According to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch program, document put out by the Trump administration “is quite vague so while negotiations can start in 30 days, it’s unclear what will be demanded on key issues, whether improvements for working people could be in the offing or whether the worst aspects of the TPP”—the trade deal Trump railed against on the campaign trail and dumped once in office—”will be added making NAFTA yet more damaging for working people.”

For example, she said, the “document does not make clear whether NAFTA’s job offshoring incentives or its ban on Buy American procurement policy will be eliminated or labor or environmental standards better than the widely rejected one in the TPP will be added.”

The Minnesota-based institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy similarly said that the plan for a new NAFTA looks a whole lot like TPP.

The group also says the objectives “failed to incorporate input from civil society organizations despite detailed and extensive proposals,” as well as “continue the administration’s trend of putting multinational corporations’ narrow interests first by using the same blueprint that shaped the failed TPP.” Even as candidate Trump railed against the TPP during last year’s campaign, the group continued, it looks as though his negotiating team “plan to incorporate TPP text into NAFTA 2.0.”

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