(CNN) Democratic presidential candidate John Delaney said on CNN Tuesday that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign trade plan (laid out in a Medium post) would "prevent us from actually having a trade agreement with Germany."

Facts First: Delaney is correct. Warren's trade plan includes a lofty list of requirements for countries to meet as preconditions for entering any trade agreement with the US. For various reasons, Germany, along with a wide array of countries -- including the United States itself -- do not currently meet her standard.

Warren's list of nine key requirements seeks to advance progressive goals for labor rights, the environment, human rights, religious freedom and more.

Warren also ruled out cutting trade deals with countries being monitored by the Treasury Department for currency manipulation, the criteria for which includes countries with a significant trade surplus with the US, as well as a large current account surplus of US dollars. In a semi-annual report this spring, the Treasury Department said nine countries were on its currency monitoring list.

That includes China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam -- all major trading partners with the US whose cumulative exports and imports added up to more than $1 trillion in trade with the US last year.

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