Biden’s Trade Chief Tasked With Reset After Trump Tariff Chaos Bloomberg 2/23/2021
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Weeks before the White House said it would keep tariffs in place on more than $350 billion in Chinese goods, Katherine Tai previewed the bad news to a group of U.S. business leaders.
Tai, who is President Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. Trade Representative, told executives at a private meeting hosted by the Business Roundtable last month that lobbying for the duties to be removed wouldn’t work, according to people familiar with her remarks. Instead, companies keen to keep the so-called phase one trade deal struck by the Trump administration and Beijing should be prepared to live with the tariffs too, Tai said.
Biden s Trade Chief Tasked With Reset After Trump Tariff Chaos
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Biden Appointments Signal a Trade Approach That Hews to the Left
Many appointees who will fill the ranks of the Office of the United States Trade Representative have close ties to congressional Democrats and a focus on worker rights and enforcing trade deals.
Several new appointees have worked closely with Katherine Tai, the Biden administration’s nominee for United States trade representative.Credit.Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Published Feb. 8, 2021Updated Feb. 11, 2021
WASHINGTON The Biden administration announced a number of personnel appointments on Monday for the Office of the United States Trade Representative with close ties to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, in a signal that the new administration is likely to pursue what it calls a “worker focused” approach to trade.
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